How God created mother

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Golden words by Quaid-e-Azam, a nation builder

Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues [Read more...]

At Christmas, all roads lead home

Christmas tree

Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home. [Carol Nelson]

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive. [Robert Lynd]

There are no strangers on Christmas Eve. [Mildred Cram and Adele Comandini]

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day.  Don’t clean it up too quickly. [Andy Rooney]

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Literature is the question minus the answer

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Literature is news that stays news. [Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, 1934]

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. [Mark Twain]

Literature is the question minus the answer. [Roland Barthes]

Every man’s memory is his private literature. [Aldous Huxley]

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light.  If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. [Anatole France]

The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is [Read more...]

Teeth placed before the tongue will give good advice

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I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie. [Rodney Dangerfield]

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist. [Taylor Caldwell]

My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was. [Lasse Hallstrom]

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it’s too late to become a musician afterwards. [Peter Tork]

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but [Read more...]

Eat little, sleep sound

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. [Alfred E. Newman]

Vegetables are a must on a diet.  I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. [Jim Davis]

Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables.  They probably get jet-lagged, just like people. [Elizabeth Berry]

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. [Channing Pollock]

Red meat is not bad for you.  Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! [Tommy Smothers]

The belly rules [Read more...]

The greatest wealth is health

There’s lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it. [Josh Billings]

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. [G.K. Chesterton]

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. [Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903]

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social [Read more...]

Golden words

If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts, Albert Einstein, (attributed), US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers, US humorist & showman (1879 – 1935)

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Edith Wharton, US novelist (1862 – 1937)

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. Paul Valery, French critic & poet (1871 – 1945)

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws? [J. D. Hayworth]

A human being is a being who is constantly ‘under construction,’ but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction. [Jose Saramago]

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. [George Bernard Shaw]

A good model can advance fashion by ten years. [Yves Saint Laurent]

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces… So it is important to fashion [Read more...]

Humour is reason gone mad

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Humour results when society says you can’t scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public. [By: Tom Walsh]

Humour has a way of bringing people together.  It unites people.  In fact, I’m rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations. [By: Ron Dentinger]

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds.  A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. [By: William James]

After God created the world, He made man and woman.  Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He [Read more...]