Words have atleast 6 or 7 year wait to prove their worth and once the word enters the great portals of Oxford english dictionary founded by James Murry,it is never removed...
POST: 2011-05-20T12:32:03+05:30
Oxford English Dictionary plan was to record every word found in english from the year 1000 and to give its history,uses and meanings-Past and Present.This was to be demonstrated by Quotations. 6 million quotations had been supplied by the British public-evidence of their enduring devotion towards their language!!
POST: 2011-05-20T12:29:07+05:30
Pope received 3 American visitors to Rome and he asked the first,how long are you staying? he said 6 months,then Pope said you will be able to see something of Rome in that time.The second said 3 months.then Pope said you will see a great deal of Rome and the other said 3 weeks and Pope said you will see all there is to be seen in Rome.Good Judgement of human nature!
NOTE: 2011-05-19T16:26:56+05:30
Superstition was disinherited when science revealed the laws of the universe and put man in his place.Man saw his fate in the clouds,his happiness or misery announced in the flight of birds and referred every phenomenon of life to the soothsayers and oracles. You may read in Thucydides of battles being postponed and lost because some omen that has no moral relation to the event than the falling of a leaf was against it. Romans would never transact business after it was thundered. Alexander the ...
NOTE: 2011-05-19T16:26:56+05:30
Superstition was disinherited when science revealed the laws of the universe and put man in his place.Man saw his fate in the clouds,his happiness or misery announced in the flight of birds and referred every phenomenon of life to the soothsayers and oracles.You may read in Thucydides of battles being postponed and lost because some omen that has no moral relation to the event than the falling of a leaf was against it. Romans would never transact business after it was thundered.Alexander the Gre ...
POST: 2011-05-18T15:43:03+05:30
Clubbable man said Samuel Johnson for a good fellow!
POST: 2011-05-18T15:40:50+05:30
We would not have misbecome the lips of those ethereal beings whom he saw with that inner eye,which no calamity could darken,flinging down on the jasper pavements their crowns of amaranth and gold! quoted Maculay about Milton in his grandiloquent way.....
POST: 2011-05-17T13:32:22+05:30
A Conversation is to inform,to be informed,to please or to persuade:Cobden of House of Commons who have changed a decision in Parliament by a speech! He was able to do because of his extraordinarily persuasive manner,he kept the minds of his hearers receptive and disengaged,they saw the subject in a clear,whitelight and were prepared to judge it on its merits rather than by their prejudices....
POST: 2011-05-13T12:36:01+05:30
Cicero while in his 50s began to idealise himself as an old man and wrote his De Senectute exalting the pleasures of old age...
POST: 2011-05-13T12:34:20+05:30
Man doesnt sleep any better because he has a choice of 40 Bedrooms in his house.He can only take one ride even though he has 50 Motor cars.He cannot get more joy out of the sunshine than you or I can.The birds sing and the buds swell for all of us and in the great storehouse of natural delights there is no money taken and no price on the goods-Lord Salisbury