Nagesh Belludi

Let him who neglects to raise the fallen, fear lest, when he falls, no one will stretch out his hand to lift him up.
—Sa’Di (Musharrif Od-Din Muslih Od-Din) (Persian Poet)

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.
—Giovanni Ruffini (Italian Writer)

The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none.
—Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (French Writer, Statesman)

The substance of the mind is revealed through its tranquility and its function through its activity.
—Wang Yangming (Chinese Philosopher)

The very first right of every animal is the right to live. As you cannot give life to a dead creature, you do not have the right to take life away from a living one.
—Dada J. P. Vaswani (Indian Hindu Philosopher)

People entering marriage [must] enter it with a proper understanding of marriage as a God-given gift to help people grow in the virtues of love, faith and charity and to grow in unselfishness.
—A. J. Reb Materi (Canadian Clergyman)

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
—Louis Kronenberger (American Literary Critic)

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream—a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows—is essentially poetry.
—Michel Leiris (French Surrealist Writer, Ethnographer)

The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
—Carl Bernstein (American Journalist)

All men’s impulses, when motivated by legitimate self-interest, fall into a harmonious social pattern.
—Frederic Bastiat (French Political Economist)

We rarely like the virtues we have not.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

The punishment of desire is the agony of unfulfillment.
—Hermes Trismegistus (Greek-Egyptian Author)

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
—Ann Oakley (English Sociologist, Feminist)

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
—Jean Giraudoux (French Novelist, Playwright)

The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused only in a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.
—Oliver Goldsmith (Anglo-Irish Novelist, Poet)

Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
—Simone de Beauvoir (French Philosopher)

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
—Stephane Mallarme (French Poet)

The word exaggeration does not exist in the vocabulary of love.
—Luciano De Crescenzo (Italian Film Actor, Director, Engineer)

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.
—John Lyly (English Dramatist, Author)

That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.
—Cornelia Otis Skinner (American Actress, Playwright)

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
—Eddie Rickenbacker (American Aviator)

After a certain point money is meaningless. It’s the game that counts.
—Aristotle Onassis (Greek Shipping Magnate)

That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
—Alberto Giacometti (Swiss Sculptor, Painter)

I don’t want to frighten you, but I would like to make you understand the import of what you think of attempting. You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.
—Sherwood Anderson (American Fiction Writer)

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self-esteem is excellence, mastery of our work.
—Brian Tracy (American Author)

Those who are devoid of learning,
restraint, charity, knowledge, moral conduct,
virtue and righteousness are virtually animals
living in the human form and burdening the earth.
—Bhartrihari (Hindu Philosopher, Grammarian)

Stiff in opinion; always in the wrong.
—John Dryden (English Poet)

All lasting business is built on friendship.
—Alfred A. Montapert (American Engineer, Philosopher)

There should be one theatre where we might take our young daughters without tainting their fresh souls by images of wickedness, or worse, putting it in such pleasant and pathetic shape that they mistake it for virtue.
—Dinah Craik (English Novelist, Poet)

The tongue of experience utters the most truth.
—Arabic Proverb

Sugar is sweet at all times, even in the dark. So remains devotion for the devout, in times of comfort or discomfort, praises or insults, darkness or enlightenment.
—Pramukh Swami Maharaj (Hindu Religious Leader)