Nagesh Belludi

Mythology is the religious sentiment growing wild.
—Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (German Philosopher)

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
—Ad Reinhardt (American Abstract Painter)

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
—Aeschylus (Greek Playwright)

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
—William Glasser (American Psychiatrist)

Fame is the sum of misapprehensions that accrue around a name.
—Rainer Maria Rilke (Austrian Poet)

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
—David Viscott (American Psychiatrist, Author)

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.—Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
—Epicurus (Greek Philosopher)

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
—Samuel Johnson (British Essayist)

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.
—Susan Sontag (American Writer, Philosopher)

Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.
—George Goodman (American Economist)

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.
—Madam C. J. Walker (American Entrepreneur)

The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
—George Boardman the Younger (American Clergyman)

Who fears to offend takes the first step to please.
—Colley Cibber (English Playwright)

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
—Agnes de Mille (American Dancer)

If you advertise an interest in buying collies, a lot of people will call hoping to sell you their cocker spaniels.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
—Pierre Bayle (French Philosopher)

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
—George Jean Nathan (American Drama Critic)

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
—John Irving (American Novelist)

Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (American Journalist)

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
—John C. Calhoun (American Head of State)

If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.
—Irvin S. Cobb (American Humorist)

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
—Christopher Hampton (British Playwright, Screenwriter)

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
—Bill Maher (American Comedian, TV Personality)

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
—Will Durant (American Historian)

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
—Woodrow Wyatt (British Journalist, Politician)

Beauty is God’s handwriting.
—Charles Kingsley (English Clergyman)