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Our friends Riaz & Siraj send us every year their selections of quotes as greetings! We reproduce their witty collection to share with our readers
- Editor
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Thoughts to keep you company in 2005
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• We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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• Judge your success by what you have had to give up in order to get it.
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• If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
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• It's always the good that often feel rotten. Pleasure is for those who are bad.
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• A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
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• Once you lead people into war, they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
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• All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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• Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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• Advertising is the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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• Autobiography: An obituary in serial form, with the last
installment missing.
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• Dancing: A vertical expression of a horizontal desire.
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• Chastity: The most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
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• Examinations: When those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
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• Life is a bad dream between two awakenings, and every day is a life in miniature.
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• Life is a great surprise. Death will be an even greater one.
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• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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• Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
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• Money is like sex; you think of nothing else when you don't have it, and of other things when you do.
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• Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
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• Oral contraception: When a man asks a girl to go to bed with him, and she says “No”.
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• TV is called a 'medium' because, on television, nothing is well done.
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• Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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• To find a friend, one must close one eye. To keep him, two.
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• The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
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• Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.
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• Some people's idea of being faithful is not having more than one partner in bed at the same time.
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• Never swim with the tide; remember, only dead fish swim with the stream.
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• Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really understand the present situation.
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• There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
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• The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
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• It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless you are an exceptionally good liar.
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• One man is as good as another, until he has written a book.
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• Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
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• So what if beauty is only skin-deep? Are you looking for beautiful pancreas?
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• The recipe for a good novel: A beginning, a muddle, and an end.
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• The Internet is giving pornography a bad name.
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• It is better to be a man of promise, than a man of promises.
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• Ninety per cent of the friction of life is due to the tone of voice.
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• Think like a wise man, but express yourself like the common people.
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• The limits of your language mean the limits of your world.
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• Say not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.
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• No iron can stab the heart with such force as a full stop put just at the right place.
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Wish You a Happy, Peaceful and Prosperous New Year!!!
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