Proverbs
I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country”- Fenelen
“Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think”
-La Brugere
“True beauty consists in purity of heart”
M.K Gandhi
“The fox changes his skin but not his habits”
-Serotonins
“A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple”
-Dutch Proverb
“Beauty is the first present Nature gives to woman and the first it takes away”
-Mere
“A man with a clear conscience probably has a pure memory”
-Anonymous
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, he time when we were happy”
-Dante
“The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laugh”
-Nicolas Chamfort
“Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves “
-Robert Lembke
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to lie well”
-Samnel Butter
“Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it’
-Lowell
“As the purse is emptied the heat is filled”
-Victor Hugo
“A man never discloses his own characters so clearly as when he describes another’s”
-Paul Richter
“I regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent”
-Cyrus
“Silence is often a best answer”
Anonymous
“Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause”
-Victor Hugo
“A man without patience is a lamp without oil”
-Andres Segovia
“The burden of self is lightened when I laugh at myself”
-Rabindranath Targore
“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which make us bigger”
-Henry Ford
“It is because we fear death so much for ourselves that we shed tears over the death of others”
-M.K.Gandhi
“Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan”
-John E Kennedy
”Love without return is like a question without answer”
This is what the Dalai Lama has to say for 2004.
Instructions for life.
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the 3 R’s;
Respect for self
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so that you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate step to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone everyday.
9. Open arms to change but don’t let go off your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go some place you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to getting it.
1. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
“If you always do what you have always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got”.
-Anonymous
21 Facts to Know
1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions. 2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot .
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal..
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.