Small April sobbed, I’m going to cry Please give me a cloud to wipe my eye; Then April Fool, she laughed instead And smiled a rainbow overhead.-Anonymous “A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool, usually has his suspicions.”-Anonymous A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to […]
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April Fool’s Day and some funny quotes
Posted: 28th March 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: April, april fool day funniest quotes, april fool day quotes, april's fool day funny, april's fool day quotes, clever, day, doubts, einstein, fool, fool's, foolproof, funniest, mark, Plato, quotes, say, silly, twain, wise
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Friendship Day quotes
Posted: 7th August 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: art, camus, cares, face, friendship, friendship day, funny, grief, healing, judge, lewis, quotes, yeats
Age appears to be best in four things, old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. -Francis Bacon The blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one’s deepest as well as one’s most foolish […]
H. L. Mencken Funny Quotes
Posted: 8th June 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: alimony, animal, beautiful, bore, children, church, cynic, democracy, election, faith, funny, H.L, heaven, idealist, love, machine, man, married, Mencken, newspaper, politician, professor, quotes, sunday, thought
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to […]
Ralph Waldo Emerson -quotes and excerpts
Posted: 8th June 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: childhood, emerson, excerpts, explore, god, ground, kitten, light, lover, man, manhood, mind, moment, nature, painter, past, quotes, ralph, roses, solitary, stars, suicide, thought, time, waldo
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the […]
Albert Camus-quotes and excerpts from his written works
Posted: 28th May 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: albert, camus, Earth, evil, excerpts, freedom, happiness, history, human, idealist, ideology, imagination, justice, life, live, love, man, meaning, memories, quotes, reason, sea, stars, stupidity, suicide, war, world
Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us to die. I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now […]
Friedrich Nietzsche- quotes and excerpts from his writings
Posted: 23rd May 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: beauty, boredom, deception, excerpts, find, forms, freedom, Friedrich Nietzsche, gods, love, nothing, poets, power, pride, quotes, shine, star, universe, world
Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of “world history,” but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a […]
George Santayana-Quotes and excerpts from his writings
Posted: 23rd May 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: aim, beauty, birth, cure, death, deny, despise, excerpts, fact, faith, fanaticism, george, happiness, history, intelligence, man, memory, quotes, santayana, wisdom
O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul’s invincible surmise Was […]