SOME UNUSUAL QUOTATIONS

 

SOME UNUSUAL QUOTATIONS

A quotation is defined as a group of words or a short piece of writing taken from a book, play, speech, etc. and repeated because it is interesting or useful.

A good quotation contains an extraordinary thought which supports you when you are writing or speaking on some topic. More often than not it becomes a part of your permanent knowledge and lasting  memory.

Usual quotations please you but don’t surprise you. Unusual quotations surprise you. They make you laugh as if they had some foolish thought in them.   

Here are some unusual quotations on various topics:-

1.A philosopher is one who doubts.

2. What a mercy it would be if we were able to open and close our ears as easily as we open and close our eyes.

3. It is easier to ruin a kingdom than to set up a greengrocer’s stall.

4. In eating, a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink and the rest left empty.

5. Envy makes strange bedfellows.

6. Fasting is a medicine.

7. You cannot understand history without having lived through history yourself.

8. Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.

9. No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

10. Success has ruined many a man.

            Finally, an unusual quotation by the Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) : Punctuality is the thief of time.

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G.R.Kanwal

26 June 2024