marathi quotes on mother

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ~G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1905



When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? ~Chuck Palahniuk



Clearly, God is a Democrat. ~Patrick Caddell



I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. ~A Chieftan from Nigeria



How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk. ~Author unknown, from New York Times editorial, "The Walk," 25 October 1967



Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner. ~Author Unknown



Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. ~Bertrand Russell



A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol. ~Adlai E. Stevenson



Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~Ann Landers



There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be. ~George Sheehan



There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. ~Desmond M. Tutu, "Religious Human Rights and the Bible"



After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor. ~Bill Kelly, "Mordillo"



I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone. ~Henry Miller



There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ~Mark Twain



Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. ~Matthew 26:41



I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl



Fat is not a moral problem. It's an oral problem. ~Jane Thomas Noland



That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell! ~Robert Pollok



There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "Life and Human Nature," Afterthoughts, 1931