RSS hold on India is total

• Venkaiah Naidu's selection for Vice President is as per expectations because Modi's vision of India doesn't go beyond RSS.
• President, Vice President, Prime Minister, Home Minister, UP CM - all crucial power positions are now under the armpits of RSS.
• None of these people, other than their politics in RSS & BJP, have no accomplishments worth advertising! Of course they had the artistic gift of public speaking.
• Their contributions or sacrifices for nation, poor or peasants are none, so far.
• Minorities, especially Muslims and people from Southern and Eastern states be careful in their political, business and industrial activities. They have no love last for these people. Their vision is confined to North, West & Central India, the Hindi speaking belts.

Here are few important points about RSS:

• The RSS was banned once during British rule, and then thrice by the post-independence Indian government – first in 1948 when a former RSS member assassinated Mahatma Gandhi; then during the emergency (1975–77); and for a third time after the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992.
• RSS founder KB Hegdewar was  a political protege of B. S. Moonje, a Tilakite Congressman. Hedgewar personally participated in the 'Satyagraha' launched by Gandhi in April 1930, but he did not get the RSS involved in the movement. 
• The Bombay government, in a report, appreciated the RSS by noting that the Sangh had scrupulously kept itself within the law and refrained from taking part in the disturbances (Quit India Movement) that broke out in August 1942. RSS assured the British authorities that it had no intentions of offending against the orders of the Government.
• The RSS initially did not recognize the Tricolor as the National Flag of India. The RSS mouthpiece, the Organiser, demanded, in an editorial that the Bhagwa Dhwaj (Saffron Flag) be adopted as the National Flag of India. After the Tricolor was adopted as the National Flag of India by the Constituent Assembly of India on 22 July 1947, the Organiser viciously attacked the Tricolor and the decision to adopt it as the National Flag of India. The RSS hoisted the National Flag of India at its headquarters in Nagpur, on 14 August 1947 and on 26 January 1950, but stopped doing so after that.
• The RSS initially did not recognize the Constitution of India, strongly criticising it because the Indian Constitution made no mention of "Manu's laws" – from the controversial ancient Hindu text Manusmriti, which had been said to denigrate the lower castes and untouchables in India. 
• The RSS criticised B. R. Ambedkar's public pronouncements that the new constitution would give equality to all castes. On 6 February 1950 the Organizer carried another article, titled "Manu Rules our Hearts", written by a retired High Court Judge named Sankar Subba Aiyar, that reaffirmed their support for the Manusmriti as the final law giving authority for Hindus, rather than the Constitution of India.
• The RSS' opposition to, and vitriolic attacks against, the Constitution of India and its author Ambedkar continued post independence, even long after Ambedkar's death. 

Demonetisation: Can RBI write off notes it promised to honour?

• 'I promise to pay the bearer of this note...' vows the RBI governor on every Indian currency note. Every currency note is a contract between the bearer and the state, something that has been signed in good faith and ratified by the extant law of the land.
• Can the contract be repudiated unilaterally by the state? 
• Can the bearer of the note be shooed away when he demands its execution even when there is no expiry date or conditions on the contract?
• Is the citizen-sovereign contract at the mercy of to executive's fiat taken without consulting the legislature?
• Supreme Court came down hard on the government and refused to entertain its request to put on hold petitions pending in various high courts challenging the decision to scrap Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 bank notes. 
• The apex court is right. A decision that affects every Indian's life without going through the necessary legislative process, debate, deliberation and vote - ought to be seriously examined. The other two pillars of a democracy, the legislature and the judiciary must be given an opportunity to scrutinize an executive decision with huge ramifications.
• The government has not used the word demonetization. All that the government has said is that it is withdrawing these notes as being legal tender. But it still leaves us with the question: does the RBI have the obligation to pay the bearer, or is that obligation over, after the government announcement?
• The press release issued by the government talks only about ‘cancelling the legal tender character’ of the high denomination notes, raising questions about whether they are drawing a fine distinction between delegalisation and demonetization.
• Can the state end its contract with citizens ex-parte?
• On what legal grounds can the RBI write off notes it had promised to honour? Can banks just throw out people who go with these notes to banks after the deadline set by the government?
• It has been sold as a panacea for black money, corruption, counterfeit currency, Naxalism and cross-border terrorism. We have been told that Kashmir will become quiet now becomes the youth there have no money to buy stones to throw at security forces.
• Not much has been put out in the public domain by figure of data and hard numbers. Most of the answers have come in the form of high-decibel rhetoric and through speeches where the Prime Minister has displayed an entire range of emotions. But, somebody needs to separate the rhetoric from facts.
• The government can, of course, ignore the Court's warning of there being a possibility of riots if things do not improve, the suffering of people is not mitigated and money is not pumped back into circulation. The queues are getting longer, people are dying outside banks and ATMs. In the rural areas, away from the echo chambers of TV studios and social media, there is panic and anarchy.
• The court has given the government a warning, a wakeup call. It can, of course, continue to remain in denial and commit suicide.

-------- The above was during Nov & Dec 2016 - Demonetization months -------

• On July 4, 2017, The Supreme Court asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday to come up with a policy to offer a window to people who could not deposit their demonetized notes for legitimate reasons before last year’s December 30 deadline.
• If someone has a genuine reason, you cannot deny him the opportunity to deposit the money. You cannot be allowed to deprive a person of his money - a bench headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar told solicitor general Ranjit Kumar. 
• Don’t force us to pass a three-line order and quash your notification, SC warned.
• You cannot take away someone’s property. If it’s my money and I can establish that, then you cannot deprive me of my property - Khehar said.
• RBI officials put the responsibility on the government to take a call on offering another window for depositing defunct notes.
• On July 17, 2017, The Centre informed the Supreme Court that it will not offer any more chances to deposit or exchange demonetized notes to those who missed the December 30 deadline. The government asserted that granting any further grace period for depositing banned currency notes will defeat the purpose of demonetization, which was done as an exercise in eliminating black money.
• The very object of demonetization and elimination of black money will be defeated if a window is opened for a further period as the persons in possession of the specified bank notes (scrapped notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500) will have had sufficient time and opportunity to carefully plan the reasons and excuses for not depositing the SBNs within the permitted period -- before December 30, 2016, the Ministry of Finance said in an affidavit presented in the Supreme Court earlier in the day.
• The government had earlier assured the people that if people were unable to deposit demonetized currency notes by that day i.e. Dec 30, 2016, they could do so till March 31, 2017 at RBI branches after complying with certain formalities. This was not permitted without citing any reasons.

Any policy, that troubles even a single honest law abiding citizen, is a bad policy.

My View:

How Modi & Co will catch black money etc is their business. Asking honest & genuine citizens to suffer, forego their legitimate rights and lose their hard earned money is unacceptable nonsense. Regrettably, Modi is neither a  wise leader nor a statesman. He is just a third rated leader gifted with rhetoric capabilities and honest & good people, poor & peasants are destined to suffer in Modi's India. To what extent Legislature and Judiciary uphold citizen rights is to be seen. Not much of hope, unless people take their fight for rights into streets, like farmers of MP and Maharashtra.

India-China border standoff

A series of disputes resulting in an armed confrontation between China and India would roil international markets, exacerbate fears in other Asian capitals about Chinese assertiveness, and distract Beijing and New Delhi from constructive agendas of economic development. The resulting setbacks to the Chinese and Indian economies could potentially harm U.S. investors, retailers, manufacturers, and service providers. The US has a major interest in peaceful relations between China and India, two largest countries by population and its trading and diplomatic partners.

• The Prime Minister Indira Gandhi openly asserted at the press conference on October 7 (1966) that India was committed to protect Bhutan.
• Bhutan and China do not have formal relations but maintain contact through their missions in Delhi.
• India and Bhutan has 'friendship treaty 2007' which states that 'neither government shall allow its territories for activities harmful to the national security and interest of the other'. 
• In 1966, according to a China's report - the Dongnan (Donglang) grassland (referred to as ‘Doklam pasture’ by the Indian side) where the Indian government alleged that Chinese ‘intrusions’ had taken place is located in the vicinity of the tri-junction of the boundaries of China, Bhutan and Sikkim and has always been under Chinese jurisdiction and Chinese herdsmen have grazed there for generations.
• On the night of June 8, 2017, China initiated manoeuvre in Doklam that would trigger a chain of events leading to the most dangerous standoff between India and China in recent years. A platoon of China's PLA have moved stealthily into the plateau and razed stone bunkers built by Royal Bhutan Army years ago and manned occasionally. In doing so China made a premeditated move to alter the status quo that prevailed for decades in a sensitive region. 
• Ob June 16, 2017, the PLA road construction party entered Doklam and was initially cautioned by a Bhutanese Army patrol. Later when they failed to stop them, the Indian soldiers in the vicinity arrived to help the Bhutanese to deter the PLA from bulldozing its road construction through territory claimed both by China and Bhutan. Both India and China have strengthened their presence in the area, deploying around 3,000 troops each. This is the first time India has confronted the PLA on third country soil in Bhutan. 
• China accuse India of reneging and demanding Indian soldiers retract from the confrontation at Doklam by withdrawing first if any dialogue is to follow. Beijing has put itself in a corner leaving it no wriggle room or a face-saving option. As events have shown, India will not budge as the stakes are too high for it to blink first. Being locked in the valley also poses risks for the PLA.
• Every year, China and India claim hundreds of incursions by the other across the line that separates them in the Himalayan region; over time, forces on both sides have developed signals to warn the other and avoid deadly clashes. 
• The month-long standoff between the Indian army and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the Doklam sector of Bhutan, has become the longest ever. A border clash could inflict dozens of casualties, jolt global markets and hurt regional economic growth.  
• It is unlikely the current stand-off will escalate into a shooting match at Doklam as China would suffer much greater losses than the Indian troops. Doklam is the culmination of the cumulated angst of the Chinese over India’s constant needling and challenging of Beijing over its obduracy in blocking India’s admission in the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group, sanctioning Jaish-e-Mohammad’s Masood Azhar as a UN designated global terrorist and refusal on clarification of Line of Actual Control (LAC). India’s rejection of Belt and Road initiative, especially the strong objection to China Pakistan Economic Corridor on grounds of sovereignty which was endorsed by the US has angered China. 
• It is also possible that with China’s infrastructure industries having almost completely run out of orders, and the military having large budgets to spend, the road had been proposed to the military command in Tibet by one of China’s powerfully-connected construction companies to refill its thinning order books.
• The Three Gorges Dam project was not a grand central project, but the brainchild of a private company owned and managed by the family of Li Peng, the former prime minister of the country. The same company, the Three Gorges Dam company, is now asking Beijing to let it build a 40,000 MW hydropower project on the big bend north of Arunachal Pradesh, where the Brahmaputra drops 3,000 metres over a few kilometres.
• The rapid deterioration in China-India relations in the past two years, Beijing must have seen in the road project a way to provoke Modi into making a serious mistake while also putting pressure on the Bhutan-India relationship –  thereby increasing India’s isolation within South Asia.
• China did not anticipate Bhutan and India would respond in unison. All the conditions that had led to India’s crushing, humiliating defeat at the hands of the Chinese in 1962 have recreated themselves. We once more have an army unprepared for battle, whose capabilities are being exaggerated.
• This time, China has accused Indian border troops of trespassing into Chinese territory on June 18 and asked New Delhi to withdraw its troops from the Donglang area as a precondition for a “meaningful dialogue” to resolve the issue. Arun Jaitley said that the statement from Bhutan makes it clear that the land in question belongs to them.
• The 1962 war was set off by what was essentially an accident – the failure of army general headquarters to inform the soldiers tasked with setting up forward posts in North-East Frontier Agency that the Chinese had rejected the new tri-junction. As a result, Captain Mahesh Prasad, who set up the Dhola post at what he thought was the tri-junction, was soon surrounded by 600 Chinese soldiers. The attempt to relieve Dhola by force set off the war.
• Most Indian analysts who have been asked whether the present confrontation could lead to war have hastened to say ‘no’. That is precisely the wishful thinking that preceded the 1962 war. 
• China’s conditionality that Indian troops must withdraw first for any dialogue to start can be softened by employing the principle of simultaneity. As has happenend in the past, both sides can withdraw together from Doklam and prevent the dispute escalating into a bigger conflict.
• India's BJP led government is likely to take a tougher line and has already irritated Beijing on related issues. Its hawkish Prime Minister Modi—facing domestic pressures to retaliate, aiming to avoid the strategic consequences of showing weakness to Pakistan, and having developed punitive military-strike options short of full-scale ground mobilization—is more likely to respond with force than his predecessors.
• Today, Modi is faced to admit that he has made a mistake, pull Indian troops back from the Doklam plateau and step back. If he does not, then China has made it absolutely clear that it will use force to evict the Indians from Doklam. What is worse, the hostilities will take place on Bhutanese territory over the objections of its leaders and people.
• A wise leader is one who knows when to back off gracefully from an untenable position. A statesman is one who can not only do this but turn the situation around and make it work in his or her country’s favour. Regrettably Modi has so far shown neither wisdom nor statesmanship. But the Chinese don’t want a war with India. So there is still a little time left to make a start.

In war, there are no winners but all are losers ... Neville Chamberlain

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth. During any war 

truth is forsaken for propaganda ... Harry Browne

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could 

make a good peace would never have won the war ... Winston Churchill

My View:

If India and China do have a war, nobody can win and it does not matter who has more guns or ships or aircraft. China might suffer higher causalities due to deficient logistical support. The fact is that the spoils of war would be impossible to bear, and given the billion-plus populations and taking care of them, even the victor would be destroyed. 1962 was a political war and badly handled. It will not happen again. Beijing is well aware of that. Even 1971 Indo-Pak war that was victorious and politically left Indira Gandhi on very strong footing proved economically destructive especially after 1973 oil crisis that led to economic unrest and eventually ended up with Emergency in 1977. During past decade India virtually dismantled all its small industries and became huge importer Chinese cheaper goods and disruption of these imported goods will effect our economy and operations. China also would suffer its economy further sinking with loss of over $60 billion exports to India. Wars are fought always between egoistic politicians rather than peoples of these two nations or their armies, who will pay the price for no fault of theirs.

Dilip Pendse, Former MD, Tata Finance Commits suicide

• Former Tata Finance managing director (MD) Dilip Pendse (61) allegedly committed suicide by hanging from a ceiling fan in his office in Mumbai's Dadar (East) on July 5, 2017 morning.
• A financial wizard, Pendse’s rise in the Tata group over 22-years catapulted him to such heights that he was considered a successor to Ratan Tata.
• Between March 2000 and March 2001, TFL’s exposure increased from ₹220 crore to nearly ₹500 crore, mostly as investments in junk stocks that crashed during the dot-com bust. 
• Tata Sons’ own review found irregularities ranging from insider trading to false paperwork within Tata Finance.
• Pendse was dismissed from Tata Finance in 2001 after the company arm ran huge losses and the group filed criminal charges against him.
• In Oct 2003, The Bombay High Court transferred the Dilip Pendse-Tata Finance case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from the Mumbai police. The judgement was delivered on a writ petition filed in the Court by Tata Finance for transfer. The investigations pertain to the alleged fraud committed by Mr Dilip Pendse, former Managing Director of the company.
• Pendse was reduced to spending most of his time, post his ignominious sacking, cooped up in his office, agonising over his fate and studying the case papers. He  languished, worrying about his own future and the future of his family. Disgraced and abandoned by old friends and colleagues, damned and destroyed for a crime that was never fully established! A man as strong, as cerebral, suddenly felt defeated and alone. Pendse eventually gave up the fight and lost the war. 
• The monumental problems our clogged  courts create, especially for law-abiding citizens, often caught in a maze of legal issues that drag on for decades and eventually cost a few their precious lives?
• According to his friend, Pendse was drained and defeated  after fighting the system for 16 long years. He must have done this (suicide) in a moment of weakness. He wanted to prove his innocence. He failed to get justice.
• Former Tata executives said Pendse’s end was as tragic as was his dramatic rise.

My View:

Whether illegality of transactions are proved are not, Dilip Pendse as MD of Tata Finance Ltd shall have to own up responsibility for company's huge losses exceeding Rs.500 crores in 2000-01. The only way CEO's can insulate from this type of catastrophes is to follow due diligence meticulously, maintain transparency at all times in their working, keeping the Board informed properly and following procedures & protocols in letter and spirit. Otherwise, they will have to own up for failed decisions and pay the price. Over enthusiasm leads to no where. What ever one does during the day, he must ensure peace of mind and sound sleep in the nights are never disturbed. Democracy and its systems are always expensive & inefficient and if we expect speedy response or justice, it reflects our ignorance, especially in India which is saddled with monumental defects and problems. The only way we can still live happily is to make fewer mistakes and be careful at all times.

Jashodaben, the spurned wife of PM Narendra Modi.

Smt. Jashodaben (b 1952), abandoned wife of Modi

• Jashodaben (born 1952) is the spurned wife of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They were married in 1968 when Narendra Modi was 18 and Jashodaben was 16. Shortly thereafter Narendra Modi ceased living with Jashodaben, traveling for three years to practice Sannyasa, going into business with his uncle, and later pursuing public office. 
• Jashodaben continues to identify as the wife of Narendra Modi. She completed her education and had a career as a teacher. After retirement in 2009, Jashodaben lives with her brother Ashok Modi and his wife in Unjha and her pension is Rs.14,000 per month.  
• She blamed their situation on destiny and bad times. She once said "I have never interfered in his life and nor has he". Jashodaben and Modi met for the last time in 1987, she said that Modi apologized to her for not staying with her all those years and asked her to consider divorce and re-marriage and carry on with her life. She however replied saying, "Why would I re-marry? You move forward on your path and I will on mine." 
• In1992, when a Gujarati weekly carried for the first time a story on Modi's marriage, Jashodaben and her family have refrained from talking to media, calling it a personal affair, and wishing Modi good luck in his endeavours.
• Modi, who has ruled Gujarat since 2001, has left the field for "spouse" blank in four Assembly polls. Of late, he has also flaunted his single status at rallies, saying that he was single and had no one to be corrupt for.
• In 2009 a media report quoted her as saying, “I will not say anything against my husband. He is very powerful. This job is all I have to survive. I am afraid of the consequences.” 
• But the Lok Sabha elections 2014 papers made it mandatory for him to 'do the needful'. Virtually overnight, Jashodaben's existence became known to the public. 
• Jashodaben was living a life of total obscurity, even during the time her husband was the high profile chief minister of Gujarat. And there she would probably have stayed even after he rose to lead his party to victory in the 2014 elections, had the Supreme Court guidelines not forced Modi to declare his marital status. 
• It was only after armed guards started to 'protect' her 24x7 that the lady decided it was time to ask a few relevant questions. On whose orders was she being provided these guards? She expressed her own fears that the 'ambiguity' revolving around the identity of these guards, made her believe there was a grave danger to her life. What an extraordinary charge to make, given her unique position!
• The guards demanded to be treated like her family's 'guests' - which means they expect khaana-peena from her kitchen, which is a burden on her finances.
• Her RTI application is bold, blunt and to the point. It reads, "I am the wife of the prime minister of India and have been extended security as per protocol. Which other service can be extended to me under the protocol? Give me a detailed description of the protocol. She also stated in an interview to a journalist that she is willing to go and stay with the prime minister as his wife in Delhi. Jashodaben wears a mangalsutra around her neck and sindhoor in the parting of her hair - easily recognisable symbols of being a married woman. She was thrice denied information on security protocol and her entitlements on the ground that her queries were related to local intelligence bureau which is exempted under RTI Act.
• Jashodaben’s younger brother, Ashok Modi, with whom she lives, said "What necessary facilities should a a PM’s wife be getting, the love that she should be getting is not being given to her”  
• In Nov 2015, Jashodaben had wanted to visit relatives abroad and applied for a passport. The regional passport office in Gujarat said that her application was 'incomplete' because she did not attach a marriage certificate or a joint affidavit with her spouse, which was compulsory to get a passport. Now, Jashodaben has asked a very relevant question – How did Prime Minister Narendra Modi get a passport without showing his marriage certificate? Jashodaben has asked for all details to be provided to her, including a copy of Narendra Modi's passport issued to him when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat. An official from the regional passport office in Ahmedabad said, “We will give a reply within the stipulated time frame of 30 days.”

My View:
To a Hindu wife, her husband is her God and her life becomes one of selfless service and profound dedication to her husband. She not only shares the life and love, but the joys and sorrows, the troubles and tribulation of her husband and becomes an integral part of her husband’s life and activities. Hindu marriage is “holy” and “sacred” and she should not be left in her difficulties. Man has “pre-existing duty” to help and protect wife and estranged husband doesn't qualify for divorce even with mutual consent. Modi was 18, an adult and major, when got married and can't plead ignorance of his marital obligations. Modi walking out of marriage unilaterally is unacceptable nonsense and is despicable and such people usually get socially castigated then and even now. Harassing her with surveillance at school as CM, and denying her passport as PM, are heights of his insanity. Such a person is now PM of our great nation and its interests are highly unsafe in his hands. The man who could not fulfill his sacred and legal obligations towards his wife can't be expected to rule all classes of people without prejudice or fervor. Such 'wife deserters' should be black listed, like bank loan defaulters, and denied all kinds of social benefits and stripped of right to participate in political activities.

Stop Overthinking Everything

• Over-thinkers are plagued by distressing thoughts. Their inability to get out of their own heads leaves them in a state of constant anguish.
• While everyone over-thinks things once in a while, some people just can’t ever seem to quiet the constant barrage of thoughts. Their inner monologue includes two destructive thought patterns -- ruminating and worrying.
• Ruminating involves rehashing the past. Worrying involves negative--often catastrophic--predictions about the future.
• The tendency to overthink everything holds them back from doing something productive.
• Thinking too much about things isn’t just a nuisance. It can take a serious toll on your well-being.
• Dwelling on your shortcomings, mistakes, and problems increases your risk of mental health problems. And as your mental health declines, your tendency to ruminate increases, which can lead to a vicious cycle that is hard to break.
• Overthinking leads to serious emotional distress. To escape that distress, many over-thinkers resort to unhealthy coping strategies, such as alcohol or food.
• Rumination and worry lead to fewer hours of sleep and poorer sleep quality.
• Putting an end to rehashing, second-guessing, and catastrophic predictions is easier said than done. But with consistent practice, you can limit your negative thinking patterns.
• Awareness is the first step in putting an end to overthinking. When you notice you’re re-playing events in your mind over and over, or worrying about things you can’t control, acknowledge that your thoughts aren’t productive.
• It’s easy to get carried away with negative thoughts. Acknowledge that your thoughts may be exaggeratedly negative. Learn to recognize and replace thinking errors, before they work you up into a complete frenzy.
• Dwelling on your problems isn’t helpful--but looking for solutions is. Ask yourself what steps you can take to learn from a mistake or to avoid a future problem. Instead of asking why did this happen? Ask yourself what can I do about it?
• Stewing on your problems for long periods of time isn’t productive, but brief reflection can be helpful. Thinking about how you could do things differently or recognizing potential pitfalls to your plan can help you do better in the future. Incorporate 20 minutes of “thinking time” into your daily schedule. During that time, let yourself worry, ruminate, or mull over whatever you want. Then, when your time is up, move onto something more productive. When you notice yourself overthinking things outside of your scheduled time, remind yourself that you’ll think about that later.
• It’s impossible to rehash yesterday or worry about tomorrow when you’re living in the present. Commit to becoming more aware of the here and now. Just like any other skill, mindfulness takes practice, but over time, it can decrease overthinking.
• Telling yourself to stop thinking about something can backfire. The more you try to avoid the thought from entering your brain, the more likely it is to keep popping up. Busying yourself with an activity is the best way to change the channel. Exercise, engage in conversation on a completely different subject, or get working on a project that will distract your mind from the barrage of negative thoughts.

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My View:
In most situations, what happened is only 10% and our negative reaction is 90%. Over thinking in wrong direction ruins our own personality, serves no purpose and one gets socially isolated. The easiest way to be happy is discard unhappy thoughts. Not easy. When ever one's thoughts goes in negative direction, just walk for five minutes and thought process changes direction. Realize that it is nobody's job to keep you happy. It is your own. You are neither superior nor inferior to any body. Personality development, awareness and conscious efforts are the only ways to come out of this awkward situation. Learn to take action, forgive and stop looking behind you. See what is right in front of you, and what lies ahead.

William Shakespeare Quotes

• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
• A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
• No legacy is so rich as honesty.
• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
• Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
• The course of true love never did run smooth.
• Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
• They do not love that do not show their love.
• Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
• Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
• Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
• Boldness be my friend.
• Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
• Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
• But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
• To do a great right do a little wrong.
• Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
• I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
• Men's vows are women's traitors!
• Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
• Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
• How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
• The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
• Nothing can come of nothing.
• Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
• The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
• Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
• Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
• Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
• An overflow of good converts to bad.
• I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
• Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
• What is past is prologue.
• I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
• They say miracles are past.
• I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
• Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
• There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
• Farewell, fair cruelty.
• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
• Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
• Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
• The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
• A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
• Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
• He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
• There's place and means for every man alive.
• Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
• Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
• How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
• There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
• When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great stage of fools.
• There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.
• Love is too young to know what conscience is.
• I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.
• My pride fell with my fortunes.
• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
• There is no darkness but ignorance.
• Listen to many, speak to a few.
• And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
• Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
• Speak low, if you speak love.
• Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
• Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
• As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
• Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
• Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
• I will praise any man that will praise me.
• In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
• Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
• Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
• 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
• When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
• For I can raise no money by vile means.
• A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.