Monday, 16 February 2026

UNFORGETTABLE LINES

 

                UNFORGETTABLE LINES           

Some written or spoken lines are unforgettable. They make our expression weighty and more meaningful. Here are some of them.

  1. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
  2. Love begets love.
  3. Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
  4. The early bird catches the worm.
  5.  Practice makes perfect.
  6. Actions speak louder than words.
  7. Better late than never.
  8.  Late is better than not at all.
  9. Fall seven times, stand up eight. (Japanese Proverb).
  10.  Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.
  11.  A stitch in time saves nine.
  12.  What you do is more important than what you say.
  13.  Not gold,  but only men can make a people great and strong.
  14.  In short proportions we just beauties see and in short measures life may perfect be.
  15.  God doth need either man’s work or His own gifts: Who best bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best.
  16.  They also serve who only stad and wait.
  17.  Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign, beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes like this; the land our brothers walk upon is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.
  18.  Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them.(Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore in Gitanjali : Song Offerings).
  19.  The superman believes nore readily in Destiny, feels more vitally conscious of God than the average human mind.(Sri Aurobindo – Indian Yogi 1872-1950).
  20.  Learn to listen to your body. It has its own language.

                                    **********

G. R. Kanwal

16 Feb 2026

 

 

 

 

No comments:

Post a Comment