Jaisanthini World

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

GLUTTONY: He that eats till he is sick, must fast till he is well. -Thomas Fuller A gourmet is just a glutton with brains. -P.W.Haberman Eat enough and it will make you wise. -John Lyly

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