I, Me and Myself
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." -- Oscar Wilde (1854 –1900)
Oscar and also said "The final mystery is oneself" and "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance". Enough said.
Happiness
"If you want to be happy, be." -- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
People have different interpretation of happiness. Read this:
An American, a Frenchman, and a Vietnamese refugee had a discussion about the happiness of life. "To me, happiness is returning home on a Monday evening, having a wonderful dinner prepared by my wife, then slouching on the sofa watching Monday Night Football," the American said.
"You Americans are not romantic at all", the French injected, "Sharing a beautiful evening with my lover, walking along the Seine river, and having a romantic dinner on top of the Eiffel tower. That is happiness of life."
"You call those things happiness", the Vietnamese laughed, "then you two still don't understand life at all. Imagine this. You are sleeping soundly at night in Saigon. Then suddenly you hear loud knocks on your front door. You hear loud voices, 'Mr. Nguyen Van Binh, open the door!'. Quaking with fear, you rush out and open the door. Right there, you see two secret policemen ready to handcuff you. One of them says to you, 'Mr. Nguyen Van Binh, you are under arrest for your anti-revolutionary activities. You are being sent to the re-educational camp tonight!' Sweating profusely and shaking uncontrollably, you reply to them, 'Comrades, Mr. Nguyen Van Binh lives next door.' That moment is happiness in life, my friends.
Free Lunch
"In the future, you're going to get computers as prizes in breakfast cereals. You'll throw them out because your house will be littered with them." -- Robert Lucky (1936 -- )
People of Tamil Nadu are getting Freebie television. Maybe in the next election Ms Jayalalithaa will promise and give Freebie computers. Nothing is impossible for the Indian politicians.
Life
"Reality continues to ruin my life." -- Calvin and Hobbes
Sigh.
Razors pain you; Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give;
Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
-- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Love
"Love is the delusion that one woman is different from another". -- Oscar Wilde (1854 –1900).
Maybe it is true from a man's perspective.
A woman's perspective about Love might be:
My own dear love, he is strong and bold
And he cares not what comes after.
His words ring sweet as a chime of gold,
And his eyes are lit with laughter.
He is jubilant as a flag unfurled --
Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him.
My own dear love, he is all my world --
And I wish I'd never met him.
-- Dorothy Parker (1893 -- 1967)
2 comments:
First appollo-Gs for the delayed comment :D and now,
Brilliant, simply brilliant quotes.
I want those free computers for sure :D
My favourite is "Reality continues to ruin my life." -- Calvin and Hobbes
Razors pain you; Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give;
Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
-- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Brilliantly written tag. Thanks for doing this.
Kusum: Thanks for the comments :).
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