Jaisanthini World

GIVING: You need more tact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action. -William Bolitho The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. -Corneille Gifts are scorn'd where givers are despi'd. -John Dryden We do not quite forgive a giver. -Ralph Waldo Emerson A gift much expected is paid, not given. -George Herbert Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. -La Bruyere I find nothing so dear as that which is given me. -Montaigne Giving requires good sense. -Ovid Every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts. -Proverbs 19:6

GENIUS: I can always leave off talking when I hear a master play. -Robert Browning: A Toccata of Galuppi's Genius does what it must, and talent does what i can -E.Bulwer-Lytton Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. -Arthur Conan Doyle Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. -Goethe Genius only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. -Jane Hopkins Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that whose power a man is. -James Lowell There is no great genius without a touch of madness. -Seneca

GAMBLING: The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. -Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is to throw them away. -Chatfield Gambling is the child of avarice, but the father of prodigality. -C.C.Colton Nothing is sacred to the gambler. -Jacques Saurin

FLATTERY: Flatterers say to your face that which they would never think of saying behind your back. -John F.Parker What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering -G.B.Shaw

FICKLENESS: The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. -G.B.Shaw

FEAR: In extreme danger fear feels no pity. -Julius Caesar I will show you fear in a handful of dust. -T.S.Eliot:The Waste Land He that fears you present will hate you absent -Thomas Fuller We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. -Livy He must necessarily fear many, whom many fear. -Seneca

FAME: All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well. -Marcus Aurellius From Fame to infamy is a beaten road. -Thomas Fuller Those only deserve a monument who do not need one. -William Hazlitt Seldom comes Glorie till a man be dead. -Robert Herrick