Jaisanthini World

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