quotes on republic day

The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite! ~Walter Winchell



The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. ~Charles de Gaulle



What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not competed to the point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it and it works." ~William Faulkner, address, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 8 June 1952



Christian fundamentalism: the doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life. ~Andrew Lias



They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it. ~Tommy Bolt, about the tempers of modern players



You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. ~Norman Juster



All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. ~Martin H. Fischer



Everything in moderation, including moderation. ~Author Unknown



One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him. ~Lemony Snicket



When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. ~George Pataki



Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. ~Stuart Chase



If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles. ~Benjamin Franklin



Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894



In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. ~Kathy Norris



Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings. ~Author Unknown



Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise. ~David Moschella



I'd stop drinking coffee, but I'm no quitter. ~Author Unknown



We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt... ~Dorothy Day



Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable. ~A.P. Herbert, Misleading Cases, 1935



Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. ~Linda Solegato