By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Call no man unhappy until he is married.
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
In a bunch of fruits yielded by a tree, not all are same. One is sweeter second may be bitter or another one may be stale even. In churning of the sea of milk one group got the nectar and the other poison. God has retained the responsibility of giving peace, patience and joy unto Himself. He is pleased with those who chant and worship Him and they are granted the above. If any reference of a temple is made even by a single line in any of the 18 puranas, that temple is called a kshetra. More than 10 puranas had praised about Venkatachalam, the abode of Lord Srinivasa — the God of this Kaliyuga. Various Azhwars had sung in praise of the Lord. Sri Muthuswamy Dikshitar had composed 108 kirthanas about this God. It is said that Thiruvenkatamalai is a part of Sri Vaikunta. Adisesha, the reclining bed of Lord Narayana, descended down as the Hills and the Lord as Srinivasa.
Vedas say the Moon has emerged from the mind of the God which is always cool. The eyes of the Lord are ever cool like moon called “Venkatesa Nayanam”. The mercy of the Lord is showered through the eyes like nectar. When the cowherd clans were affected by the poison spewed by the snake Kalinga, it was removed by Lord Krishna by just seeing them through His eyes.
Sri Annamacharya, a great devotee of the Lord, had composed a number of krithis. He had composed 100 slokas on the divine consort, called ‘Padmavathi Sathakam’. With Her divine blessings, Sri Annamacharya worshipped Lord Srinivasa, Sri Embar Kasturiswamy said in a discourse.
2. ‘All the world ‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.’
(As You Like it Act 2, Scene 7)
3. ‘Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?’
(Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2)
4. ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’
(Richard III Act 1, Scene 1)
5. ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’
(Macbeth Act 2, Scene 1)
6. ‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’
(Twelfth Night Act 2, Scene 5)
7. ‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’
(Julius Caesar Act 2, Scene 2)
8. ‘Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.’
(The Tempest Act 1, Scene 2)
9. ‘A man can die but once.’
(Henry IV, Part 2 Act 3, Part 2)
10. ‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!’
(King Lear Act 1, Scene 4)
11. ‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’
(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 2)
12. ‘If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?’
(The Merchant of Venice Act 3, Scene 1)
13. ‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well.’
(Othello Act 5, Scene 2)
14. ‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks’
(Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2)
15. ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’
(The Tempest Act 4, Scene 1)
16. ‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’
(Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5)
17. ‘Beware the Ides of March.‘
(Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2)
18. ‘Get thee to a nunnery.’
(Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1)
19. ‘If music be the food of love play on.‘
(Twelfth Night Act 1, Scene 1)
20. ‘What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet.’
(Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2)
21. ‘The better part of valor is discretion’
(Henry IV, Part 1 Act 5, Scene 4)
22. ‘To thine own self be true.‘
(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3)
23. ‘All that glisters is not gold.’
(The Merchant of Venice Act 2, Scene 7)
24. ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.’
(Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 2)
25. ‘Nothing will come of nothing.’
(King Lear Act 1, Scene 1)
26. ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’
(A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 1, Scene 1)
27. ‘Lord, what fools these mortals be!’
(A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 1, Scene 1)
28. ‘Cry “havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war‘
(Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 1)
29. ‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’
(Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2)
30. ‘A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!‘
(Richard III Act 5, Scene 4)
31. ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’
(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5)
32. ‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.’
(A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 1, Scene 1)
33. ‘The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.’
(Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2)
34. ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’
(Sonnet 18)
35. ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.’
(Sonnet 116)
36. ‘The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones.’
(Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 2)
37. ‘But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.’
(Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2)
38. ‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.’
(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3)
39. ‘We know what we are, but know not what we may be.’
(Hamlet Act 4, Scene 5)
40. ‘Off with his head!’
(Richard III Act 3, Scene 4)
41. ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.’
(Henry IV, Part 2 Act 3, Scene 1)
42. ‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.’
(The Tempest Act 2, Scene 2)
43. ‘This is very midsummer madness.’
(Twelfth Night Act 3, Scene 4)
44. ‘Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.’
(Much Ado about Nothing Act 3, Scene 1)
45. ‘I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.’
(The Merry Wives of Windsor Act 3, Scene 2)
46. ‘We have seen better days.’
(Timon of Athens Act 4, Scene 2)
47. ‘I am a man more sinned against than sinning.’
(King Lear Act 3, Scene 2)
48. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit.‘
(Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2)
49. ‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle… This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.’
