My initial experience going to a library and that too a big one i.e. The British Council library in New Delhi, India was an extremely boring one. For some weird reason i decided i wanted to read about Morse-code and something complicated like that ( god knows to please whom?! ) ... Anyways, i did read some such stuff ( and i was just a school student) - so it goes without saying i was in a semi-doze kind of situation...
After i had sufficiently killed myself with boredom and feeling awkward to look all around the library for more options ( coz i was young and stupid and very conscious that some people were watching my movement around the place)... i was pushed to a level where i just HAD to move out of the seat i thought i was going to stay glued in, lest my snores are heard all around... i pushed myself around the place to finally find something that interested me!
Quotes, by some interesting authors... and i would love to share it in my blog ( more importantly coz the piece of paper i scribbled them in, is showing increasing signs of losing itself where i cannot find it forever!).
Here goes: -
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations:
by ULYSSES (1922)
"A man of genius makes no mistake.
His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
by SHAKESPEARE
" Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin;
and sin that amends is but patched with virtue."
"Love sought is good,
but giv'n unsought is better"
"But be not afraid of greatness;
some men are born great,
some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them."
"Age - I do abhor thee,
Youth, I do adore thee."
" Though i am not naturally honest,
I am so sometimes by chance."
by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
" I enjoy convalescence.
It is the part that makes illness worthwhile."
" When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it is his duty."
" A man of great common sense and good taste,
meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering."
"He who can, does.
He who cannot, teaches"
"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything.
That points clearly to a political career."
"Beware of the man who does not return your blow;
he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."
"Take care to get what you like,
or you will be forced to like what you get."
These were a choice few i took from that huge dictionary - love each one of them!
