Quotable Quotes

Do not take life too serious because it is silly.
- Putta

Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Good fences make good neighbors.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Never argue with an idiot. They pull you down to their level, then beat you with experience.

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

I tried changing the world. No, it did not happen, so I changed myself.
- Putta

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

Its better to keep mum than to open your mouth and clear all the doubts.

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Love is like a war, easy to start, difficult to stop, and never to forget....

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then it was too late.

Economy is the art of making the most of life.
- George Bernard Shaw

Children really brighten up a household - they never turn the lights off.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
- P. J. O'Rourke

If I am not looking good to you, then it is not my problem; I too have a problem, because you are no good either.
- Putta

Three women can keep a secret provided the other two are dead.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

Contentment is the only real wealth.
- Alfred Nobel

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

P.S. This list keeps growing as and when I find a good one.