Jaisanthini World

DELIGHT: Not by appointment do we meet delight. -Gerald Massey Violent delights have violent ends -Shakespeare:Romeo and Juliet

DECISION: In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. -T.S.Eliot:The love song of J.Alfred Prufrock We ought to weigh well what we can only once decide. -Publilius Syrus

DECEPTION: It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. -La Fontaine It is more ignominious to mistrust our friends than to be deceived by them. -La Rochefoucauld One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. -Machiavelli Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. -Jean Jacques Rousseau

DEBT: Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with diligence! -Gautama Buddha I don't want to die, but I wouldn't care if I were dead. -Cicero Pay what you owe, and you'll know what is your own. -Benjamin Franklin There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing or debt. -Henrik Ibsen We die only once, and for such a long time! -Moliere If a man ever pays you what he owes you, You're greatly beholden to him. -Terence:Phormia

DEATH: Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. -Henry Adams To die will be an awfully big adventure. -J.M.Barrie It costs a lot of money to die comfortably. -Samuel Butler Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me. -Emily Dickinson:Because I could not stop for death Death acquits us of all obligations. -Montaigne

DANGER: Danger bring fears, and fears more dangers bring. -Richard Baxter Danger for danger's sake is senseless. -Leigh Hunt The profession of soldiers and sailors has the dignity of danger. -Samuel Johnson:Boswell's Life of Johnson A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Jean Paul Richter Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck the flower, safety. -Shakespeare:Henry IV In this world, there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. -G.B.Shaw

CIVILIZATION: We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. -Omar Bradley Civilization does not lie in a greater or lesser degree of refinement, but in an awareness shared by a whole people. -Albert Camus We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock crowing and the morning star. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. -Elbert Hubbard Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool -Robert Hutchins As Civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. -Lord Macaulay Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour. -Arnold Toynbee Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the lifeblood of real civilization. -G.M.Trevelyan