Jaisanthini World

CAUTION: He that cannot see well, let him go softly. -Francis Bacon What ever men for Loyalty pretend, 'Tis Wisdome's part to doubt a faithful friend. -Robert Herrick:Distrust The scars of others should teach us caution. -St.Jerome Be not the first by whom the new are tried. Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. -Alexander Pope:An Essay on Criticism

CANDOUR: Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. -William Blake Candour and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin. -Tacitus Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid. -Oscar Wilde

BOREDOM: Every hero becomes a bore at last. -Ralph Waldo Emerson One is almost always bored by those persons with whom one is not permitted to be borred. -La Rochefoucauld

BELIEF: Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. -Francis Bacon He does not believe, that does not live according to his beliefs. -Thomas Fuller Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. -William James Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. -Montaigne

BEHAVIOUR: Don't tell your friends about your indigestion; 'How are you?' is a greeting, not a question. -Arthur Guiterman There is nothing more likely to betray a man into absurdity than condescension. -Samuel Johnson:Boswell;s Life of Johnson Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. -Mark Twain

BEAUTY: Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. -David Hume. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance. -John Ruskin Beauty itself doth of itself persuade. The eyes of men without an orator. -Shakespeare:The Rape of Lucrece Everything beautiful impresses us as sufficient to itself. -Thoreau What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. -Leo Tolstoy Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. -Zimmerman

The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfills himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. -Alfred Lord Tennyson