Friday, March 23, 2007

Words of the Wise...

“To have joy, one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.” - Lord Byron

“We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.” - Cato the Elder

“It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.” - Publilius Syrus

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.” - John Gaule

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.” - G.K. Chesterton

“After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.” - De La Lastra’s Law

“Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it’s a letdown, they won’t buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.” - Mickey Spillane

“The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.” - Nikos Kazantzakis

11 comments:

Maya said...

Good ones...Very relevant in life...Just tell me where from do you get topics to blog on just like that?I really admire your quantity & quality of blogging.Inspiring & truly amazing,reddy!!!

Neeraj said...

Dear Reddy,

This is to lodge an official complaint for over-blogging.
Your rate of churning out blogs far exceeds our rate of putting responses.

You are hereby charged with scuttling the chances of having any new posts on the blogs of ur blogger friends since they have a hard time commenting on urs in the first place!!

haha!!

Good one.. :-)

Vivek said...

Neeraj:
In response to your diatribe on my blogging or rather my rate of posting my opinions on issues, I am not so much concerned on whether or not my opinions elicit responses. If they should be worthy of the same, they will elicit the same, irrespective of how and when they would have been posted.
As regards scuttling the chances of my blogger friends vis-a-vis their blog postings, I have not bound anyone's hands, and one is free to blog on a topic that one feels passionate about. I fail to see why commenting on my blog(s) should serve as an impediment to anyone determined enough to blog in the first place.

Haha, and a double hehe to you too!

Thank you for the compliment and the smiley.

aditya said...

Not-so-dear Reddy,

I second Neeraj's proposal. I have already launched a signature campaign to protest again this unhuman (i.e something not possible by mere mortals) act.

Not only do we spend a long time thinking while writing a comment on your blog, but it has also come to our notice that the comments that you post on other people's blogs are longer than the actual post itself (Sorry for the long-winded statement)!!!

You are too prolific, as consistent as Ajit Agarkar in scoring ducks.(wrong example!). Anyway, I don't mind if you outsource posting your articles on my blog!!!

boo hoo!

:(

(Hope you agree Neeraj....)

Maya said...

For once in a really blue moon,I agree with you,adi :-) Nice comment with all your ghaati puns :-))

P.S: We ain't making fun of you,Reddy.Just that we all suffer from an inferiority complex of not being able to blog as well and consistently as you do;-)

Vivek said...

Adi: I cannot help it if I am an opinionated chap. Plus, I write long comments to avoid being misunderstood. If that should be undesirable to you, I will try to limit the size of my comments to as small as possible.
As regards my consistency, you are right: I didn't get the example. Outsourcing is something I would investigate when it becomes unfeasible for me to post on my own. Till then, sorry, but I am not looking at the proposal.

Maya:
No need to feel inferior to me. That I am able to write so much indicates how much 'work' I have at work. That you can't, indicates that you have loads of work and are actually doing it.

Maya said...

Nah,I don't have much work to do but can't come up with blog topics like you:-)

Have posted a comment on one of your older articles(Nov 2005)- A Fool's Guide to Love..Do check out when you get time.

Maya said...

Ok...I've read the later article(The Lover's Sigh) & posted a comment as well.I knew you were sensitive and emotional,reddy but never thought you were in love!

But now,I truly understand what it's like to be in love,and that too,loving someone who doesn't love you:-).I completely relate to your emotions and feelings which caused you to write those 2 beautiful articles.
Maybe someday I'll write a book on Heartbreaks too.

aditya said...

Keep blogging Reddy. Was just kidding, hope you know that!

Anonymous said...

Hey, nice quotes. I may just steal a few and stick 'em in my quotes script...

Neeraj said...

@adi - i more than agree with u!
Here's a proposal to Reddy from our behalf -

Put up some 10 posts that u might want to blog on..and ask everyone to see who comes up first with them..
That way we'll get ideas to blog on and you can further increase ur rate of blogging by outsourcing the writing work to us and create more and more posts just by outlining topics to be written about.

If we do extremely well, Aditya,Maya,myself and other blogger friends of urs might together be able to generate almost as many posts as u do!!

Moreover, you can then express all ur thots as comments..

I am not too sure any of this makes any sense. But that wasn't the idea anyway!!

Keep the goodies(or longies) coming!!

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