All Quotes By Tag: Humour
“Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.”
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“Eating was still a sore point with Smriti.She failed to understand,when interesting options like mango juice or chocolates were available,why was she forced by her stupid mother to eat boring regular meals?After much contemplation,Nikhil came up with a suggestion’Don’t give her food till she herself asks for it’.His idea’starve-to know-the-worth-of -food’made sense to Abhilasha,though it took her a great deal of resolve before she could actually try it out. So on a sunday,the’lady with an iron will’took over from’the soft and kind hearted mother’.she did not give her anything to eat and waited for the golden moment,expecting a hungry Smriti to beg for food.But the much awaited moment never came.Smriti was not at all bothered about her meal and kept playing happily. The day turned into evening and still there was no trace of hunger in her.”Aren’t you feeling hungry?’ now a worried mother had no option but to eat the humble pie and ask the daughter.”No Maa. My friend Pinky had brought wafers and chocolates. Those were so yummy that I ate them all……”And that was the end of her’starve-to -know-the-worth-of-food-mission.”
“Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.”
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“Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.”
“When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive.”
“Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich.”
“We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.”
“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.”
“There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.”
“Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.”
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”
“Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.”
“We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.”
“Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.”
“People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.”