Imran's Poetry: March 2015

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas." ― Claude Pepper

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. ― Albert Einstein

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. ― Milton Berle

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. ― Lana Turner

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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. ― Joey Adams

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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety- seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. ― Ellen DeGeneres

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ― Robert Benchley

I can tell if two people are in love by how they hold each other’s hands, and how thick their sanitation gloves are. ― Jarod Kintz

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!! ― Bill Watterson

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. ― Dave Barry

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason. ― José Maria de Eça de Queiroz

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. ― Oscar Wilde

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ― Mark Twain

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong. ― Unknown

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing. ― Emo Philips

I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist. ― Gena Showalter

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. ― Groucho Marx

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people. ― Rodney Dangerfield

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. ― Spike Milligan

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. ― Rodney Dangerfield

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age ― Lucille Ball

I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. ― Steven Wright

Best Quotes of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideas, show me something better, and I will follow you.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

When reason fails, the devil helps!

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.

Best Quotes of Ernesto Che Guevara

Let the world change you than you can change the world.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!

Words without deeds are worthless.

Always struggle for victory.

It’s a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary … These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution!

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am... only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.

Homeland or death! We will triumph!

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

Best Quotes of Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Write drunk; edit sober.

All thinking men are atheists.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Never confuse movement with action.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

Death is like an old whore in a bar--I'll buy her a drink but I won't go upstairs with her.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Best Quotes on Dreams (Part 2)

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ― Oscar Wilde

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time. ― A.A. Milne

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ― Walt Disney

At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. ― Chris Reeve

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. ― Belva Davis

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended. ― Abdul Kalam

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer. ― Marcia Wieder

You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?’ ― George Bernard Shaw

Champions aren´t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them –a desire, a dream and a vision. ― Muhammad Ali

Stand often in the company of dreamers. They believe you can achieve impossible things. ― Mary Anne Radmacher

A dream is not something that you wake up from, but something that wakes you up. ― Charlie Hedges

Best Quotes on Dreams (Part 1)

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ― C.S. Lewis

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. ― John Lennon

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living. ― Steven Spielberg

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ― Eleanor Roosevelt

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. ― Oprah Winfrey

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. ― Swami Vivekanada

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. ― Langston Hughes

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ― Eugene Ionesco

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better. ― Brian Schweitzer

Dreams are necessary to life. ― Anaïs Nin

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. ― Joy Page

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. ― Walt Disney

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ― Mark Twain

No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big. ― Anon.

A goal is a dream with a deadline. ― Napolean Hill

Best Quotes of Charlie Chaplin (Part 2)

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Humor is the sublime wisdom of pity and tolerance in which man recognizes the utter futility of his own enterprise and importance.

Doing something with the public in mind is doing something without your own mind.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Whiskey! Never tasted such beastly stuff in my life! In a civilized country they drink wine.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Best Quotes of Charlie Chaplin (Part 1)

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

We think too much and feel too little.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

I will not join any club who will take me as a member.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It puts me on a far higher place than any politician.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Best Quotes of Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

To a young heart everything is fun.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Best Quotes of Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Best Quotes On Business (Part 2)

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. ― Andrew Carnegie

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ― Laurence J. Peter

The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place. ― Orison Swett Marden

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. ― Richard Branson

A man should never neglect his family for business. ― Walt Disney

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. ― Henry Ford

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. ― Richard Branson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ― Thomas Watson, Sr.

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. ― Ray Kroc

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it. ― Gary Hamel

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ― Senator Everett Dirksen

Confidence is contagious; so is lack of confidence. ― Vince Lombardi

Best Quotes On Business (Part 1)

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter. ― John Gottman

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop. ― Chinese Proverb

Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong. ― Donald Porter

Every great business is built on friendship. ― J.C. Penney

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. ― Henry Ford

The secret to success in business, and in life, is to serve others. Put others first in all you do. ― Kevin Stirtz

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not a single act, but a habit. ― Aristotle

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time. ― Owen Fellt

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die. ― Stanley Bing

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you. ― Benjamin Franklin

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. ― Aristotle

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. ― Niccolo Machiavelli

Best Quotes On Books (Part 2)

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ― Cassandra Clare

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. ― J.K. Rowling

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. ― Jules Verne

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. ― Franz Kafka

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. ― Hermann Hesse

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ― Italo Calvino

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? ― David Baldacci

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ― Anatole France

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ― Anon

A house without books is like a room without windows. ― Horace Mann

Books are the compass and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. ― Jesse Lee Bennett

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. ― Vera Nazarian

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. ― Harold Bloom If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! ― John Waters

Best Quotes On Books (Part 1)

A room without books is like a body without a soul. ― Marcus Tullius

Cicero The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ― Jane Austen

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ― Jorge Luis Borges

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ― Groucho Marx

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. ― Lemony Snicket

Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read. ― Mark Twain

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ― Oscar Wilde

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. ― John Green

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ― Joseph Brodsky

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall. ― Roald Dahl

Think before you speak. Read before you think. ― Fran Lebowitz

Never judge a book by its movie. ― J.W. Eagan

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ― Marcus Tullius

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ― Humphrey Carpenter

Books are the mirrors of the soul. ― Virginia Woolf