quotations on republic day

Cheerleaders know that pyramids were not built in Egypt. ~Author Unknown



To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. ~Soren Kierkegaard



To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger. ~"The Mission," Chapter 2



Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. ~Jefferson Machamer



We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow. ~Lee Iacocca



Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. ~Minor White



Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State. ~Edward Abbey



Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. ~William Drummond, Academical Questions



You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. ~George Burns



The neurotic's mountain and molehill are equivalent in size. ~Terri Guillemets



The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ~George Seaton



I have died so little today, friend, forgive me. ~Thomas Lux



Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. ~Charles F. Kettering



Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ~George Bernard Shaw



It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ~Walter Bagehot



In solitude, where we are least alone. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage



Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. ~Robert Hutchison, address to the British Medical Association, 1930



We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of America. ~Val Saintsbury