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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Magic Touch
YOU ARE TOOO BUSY (Or are you absent minded) when this happens:
A. You dial your landline phone from your cell phone or vice versa to locate your wife and daughter and you wonder - where they are lying.
B. You have driven a scooter for the last thirty years, but now that you have been gifted a car by the Reader's Digest, you decide to give a surprise to your friends and drive with a helmet on top of your head. To stop the car you first open your side door, and then you put your leg down."
C. You insert your greeting cards to be mailed into the CD drive of your computer and you pres "Enter".
D. To locate your wife, you have to browse through the Internet.
E. You have been sending recipes in your favorite magazine's cookery section. One day you send packed Tiffin to the Editor for "publication in the Cookery special." What do you expect from the Editor? A note saying "Thank you, it tasted wonderful; can you send the recipe?
F. You visit a doctor and say "Doc, I have fever and then you put the thermometer on his table straight into his mouth."
G. You want a family photo to be taken. You get them all seated together. Instead of turning on the camera's self timer, when nothing happens, you are shocked but soon you realize you have made them to sit in front of the dressing table mirror!
H. You meet a friend whom you saw just a day back and you greet her" Hi! You have grown quite old so soon."
I. You are at a condolence meeting and you politely tell the bereaved family "Many happy returns of the day!"
J. Father was taking his 8 year-old-son to school, for his final examination, fully prepared but was refused admission!
K. At 8 o'clock I went to my room, removed clothes from the almirah and put them in the washing machine, I was surprised to find that the dirty clothes in the basket were as many as they were at 7 o'clock.
L. I went to the hospital to give a bottle of blood for a reward of Rs.100, I was happy to see a sign – one bottle free with one - it so happened they took 2 bottles of my blood but paid only Rs.100.
M. My wife, of 28 years standing, and I decided to go shopping. In a big store there was a sign "freely exchange old things for new", when I went and looked for my wife she was nowhere to be seen.
N. I, a young boy called my Doctor girl friend to ask her when will she be free from pneumonia, malaria and leukemia to meet me?

7:34 AM

HOPE
Here is something to pass your time, but I want them to be arranged according to
their appropriateness and suggestions for alternatives are more than welcome. Hope
means different things to different people and has different connotations to same
person at different times. An attempt has been made here to gather these different
states, in a special way using only the four letters of the word in the sequential order
in which they appear in the word HOPE. Well you are not likely to agree to all of them
and you are also welcome to frame your own phrases. So enjoy and hopefully have a
good time!
1. Honours Outright Providential Explorers.
2. Habitually Offers Probable Exits.
3. Hacks/Hampers/Harries Our Peaceful Existence.
4. Halts Our Pessimism Easily.
5. Hammers Our Problems Expectantly.
6. Hammers Out Possible Eventualities.
7. Handful Of Ploys Echoes/Exhibits/Entertains.
8. Handles Our Problems Elegantly.
9. Handles Optimists Problems Exceptionally/Easily/Engagingly.
10. Handles Our Passage Enthusiastically.
11. Handy Optimism Pursued Expectantly.
12. Hang One’s Problems Ephemerally.
13. Hangs On Predicting Elation.
14. Happily Optimism Plants Everywhere.
15. Harbinger Of Possible Escape-routes.
16. Harbinger Of Profitable Experiences.
17. Harbinger Of Profitable Effort.
18. Harvest Outpouring Protective Environment.
19. Has Optimism Prevail Enchantingly/Enticingly.
20. Heads Off Pessimism Effectively.
21. Helplessness Overcomes, Possibilities Explores/Envisages.
22. Helplessness Overcomes, Procreates Enthusiasm.
23. Helplessness Overcomes, Propels Enthusiasm.
24. Helplessness Overrides, Prolongs Endurance.
25. Helplessness Overrides, Promotes Endeavour.
26. Helps One Ponder Encouragingly.
27. Helps Optimists Proceed Enthusiastically/ Earnestly/Effortlessly.
28. Helps Our Path Exploration.
29. Heralds Omnipotent Passage Eclectically.
30. Highlights Our Problems Elasticity.
31. Highlights Opportunities, Potential, Excitement.
32. Highly Optimistic Promises Embraces.
33. Hinders Our Pessimism Excitingly/Elegantly.
34. Hinges On Promises Exterior.
35. Hinges On Provident Enterprise/Exploitation..
36. Hinges On Prudence, Endeavour.
37. Hints Out Possible Escape.
38. Hints Of Providential Escape.
39. Hints Of Possibilities Endlessly.
40. Historically Offers Plentiful Encouragement.
41. Holding On – Potential Explores.
42. Holds Out Possibilities Endlessly.
43. Hotbed Of Promising Eventualities.
44. Houses Optimistic, Potential, Explorers.
45. Houses Optimism, Possibilities, Endlessly.
46. Hovers Optimistically, Promises Enigmatically.
47. Humourously Ousts Problems Eventually.

7:25 AM

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Travel with me, my way
Wisdom is ever a blessing, education can, sometimes, be a curse.

5:12 AM

ONE PHRASE A DAY
Satire is humour that has lost its patience.

12:52 AM

Friday, August 15, 2003

Nothing is said now that hath not been said before – I am not being modest, whatever will be put on this site must have been said quite often, if not in print certainly in family conversation, in groups, in circles.....
Note: some of the words and sometimes the language may look odd that will be because I would be reproducing ad verbatim things of the past era.
In this travel you will join me in Deft Definitions, Quotations, Poetry, Some funny/interesting items, Magic Squares and Cubes, and BACRONYMS. It is only Bacronyms which is a new item, my work, but more about it later. This is the first day so let us sing:

HYMN TO THE DAY
Listen to the exhortation of the Dawn-
Look to the DAY!
In its brief course lie all the Verities
And realities of your existence!
The bliss of Truth, the glory of Action,
The splendour of Beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream, and
Tomorrow is only a vision,
But today, well lived makes every yesterday
A dream of Happiness, and
Every tomorrow a vision of Hope.
Look well, therefore, to the Day!
Such is the salutation of the DAWN!!!

Well I will look forward to your comments, suggestions and new additions for improving this page, send your comments without any reservations, and remember:

Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is due. Reputation is one of the prizes which men/women contend for, it produces more labour and more talent than twice the wealth a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius and it is the imperious duty of every person to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy.

And now here are some Deft Definitions:
Ability Poor man’s wealth.
Action Parent of results.
Acupuncture A jab well done.
Anger It is rarely without reason but seldom with a good one.
Apology Politeness too late.
Architecture Frozen music.
You will have to wait to see more of them.

But here is a very, very little known fact.
Once in Persia reigned a king,
Who upon his signet ring,
Engraved a maxim true and wise,
Which if held before the eyes,
Gave him counsel at a glance,
Fit for every change and chance,
Solemn words and these are they –
“ Even this shall pass away.”

H. G. Wells short novel “ The Time Machine ” an undisputed masterpiece of Science fiction, was not the first story about a time machine. That distinction belongs to “ The Clock That Went Backward “ a pioneering but mediocre yarn by Edward Page Mitchell, an editor of the New York Sun (18.9.1881), seven years before young Wells (22 years old) wrote the first version of his famous story. Mitchell’s tale was quickly forgotten. Nor did anyone pay much attention to Well’s fantasy when it was serialized in 1888 in ‘The Science Schools Journal’ under the horrendous title “The Chronic Argonauts“. It was badly written and its publication discontinued after 3 installments. What the world knows is the rewritten version serialized in 1894 in “The New Review” under the caption “The Time Traveler’s Story”.
(Source – Time Travel And Other Mathematical Bewilderments by Martin Gardner).

3.1.2003 BACRONYMS

Most of you would be seeing this word for the first time, it is not a dictionary word. Well you must be familiar with Acronyms, in acronyms we normally pick the initial letters of the name of an institution, enterprise etc., and form a word, which may have no meaning by itself. I proceed the reverse way, I take a common dictionary word, using only the letters of the word form a phrase which yields the dictionary meaning of the word or its common usage. I follow two rules, I use all and only the letters of the word and I retain the sequential order of the letters of the word. Let me give you an example: take the word “BEST”, by B -,I form By, by E - I form Every, by S – I form Standard and by T – I form Tops, to get the phrase – By every standard tops. Well I think it conveys the sense of the word “Best”.
Here are some more:
What is EAR if not – Earliest Audio Receiver. And LAP isn’t it - Luxurious Armchair, Pacifies.
While CAGE is - Captured Animals Guarded Enclosure.
What about CHILD is he not - Charming Hostage In Loving Domain.
And MAGIC certainly is - Mystery And Gimmickry In Collusion.
Now let us examine RAINBOW – Raised Arch, Inimitable Nature’s Bouquet, Omnipotent Wonder.
Try DREAMS and you would find a perfect fit – Daringly Realistic Experiences Amidst Mystique Scenes.
And next ask someone with stomach upset and see what he has to say. STOMACH – Sensitive, Turbulent Organ, Metabolism Activity Conducted Here.
Well now let us invite OPTIMIST – Openly Picturises Things In Magnificent, Intricate Settings, Tastefully.
Let us not ignore PATIENCE – Perseverance And Tolerance In Extremely Nasty Circumstances Even.
Now HYPNOTISM – Helps You Project Notions, Orders, That Influence Subject’s Mind.
I think I have given enough examples to prove my point. I have over 2500 Bacronyms will give you more later.

Today I will introduce you to MAGIC SQUARES

In an arrangement of n horizontal rows and n vertical columns there will be nxn cells which can be filled by nxn numbers in such a way that they satisfy a set of specified conditions. For example we may require that the sum of all the rows are equal to each other or the sum of each vertical column is not only equal to each other, but also equal to the sum of each row or we may specify that only odd numbers are used to give a specified total, etc..
If we go a step further and specify that not only the sum of each row, each column and the main diagonals are equal but also that, only nxn consecutive numbers are used, the resultant square pattern has been called, from ancient times, a MAGIC SQUARE. As such a magic square of size n, denoted by Sn, is an nxn square which can be said to have the following properties:-
i) It has nxn consecutive integers, each integer occurring only once.
ii) The total for each row, each column and the main diagonals of the square is the same. This is the equisum property. The total, so obtained, is called the magic sum of the square.
(a) If these integers are 1,2,3,…n^2, the sum is n(n^2 +1)/2.
(b) In general, if the first integer is m+1, the sum is mxn + n(n^2+1)/2. Without loss of generality we may assume that the first (lowest) integer of Sn is 1. To get a square in which the sequence of integers begins with some other number m+1, we add m to all the cells in Sn.
(c) If n is larger than 4, there are a large number of unique solutions for Sn.
An example of S4 with magic sum of 34 is given below:-
01 13 12 08
06 10 03 15
11 07 14 02
16 04 05 09

Magic Squares In Ancient Times.
The construction of magic squares is an amusement of great antiquity, we hear of magic squares in China and India before the Christian era, while they appear to have been introduced to Europe by Moscowpulus in Constantinople in early 15th century. However, what was at first merely a practice of magicians and talisman makers, has now, for a long time, become a serious study for mathematicians. Not that they imagined that it would lead them to anything of solid advantage, but because the theory was seen to be fraught with difficulty and it was considered that some new properties of numbers might be discovered which mathematicians could turn to account. This has, in fact, proved to be the case. For, from a certain point of view, the subject has been found to be algebraic rather than arithmetical and to be intimately connected with great departments of science, such as, the infinitesimal calculus, the calculus of operations and the theory of groups.
Till the advent of modern computers, it is understood, that, no living person knew, in how many ways, it is possible to form a square Sn of order exceeding 4. Even now it is not known how many possible squares are there of order 6 and above.
Magic Squares In China.
The Chinese appear to have invented and used the Magic Squares since long time back; they are mentioned in a Chinese book written four to five thousands years before our era. The Worlds oldest square, a Chinese creation, is reproduced below:-
It is known as the LO SHU.
4 9 2
3 5 7
8 1 6
According to legend, the pattern was first revealed on the shell of a turtle that crawled out of the LO river in the 23rd century B.C. in the days of the legendary Emperor Yii, reputed to be a Hydraulic Engineer.
In Chinese history the pattern is considered as a mystical symbol of enormous significance. The even numbers are identified with YIN, the female principle, and the odd numbers with YANG, the male principle. The central 5 represented the earth around which, in evenly balanced Yin and Yang, were the four elements 4 & 9 symbolizing metal, 2 & 7 fire, 1 & 6 water and 3 & 8 wood.
In Chinese cosmology, from which Chinese Astrology is derived, the Positive (YANG) and Negative (YIN) aspects of reality are not seen as opposing one another, but, on the contrary, as supporting each other, like the left and the right sides of an arch. Just as by definition one arch cannot exist without having two sides, so reality cannot exist without both its Positive and Negative aspects. In the ancient Positive and Negative Taoist philosophy, everything is classified as pertaining to one of these two aspects of inter-dependent duality. Thus the Night is negative, the Day is positive; Female sexuality is negative, Maleness is positive;
Sugar is negative, Salt is positive; and so on
And now have a look at how these numbers behave;-
492^2 + 357^2 + 816^2 = 438^2 + 951^2 + 276^2.

Here is a recipe worth trying: RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS

Ingredients: Courage, Faith, Kindness for others, Laughter, Sense of humour, Tears.
Action
Take equal parts of Faith and Courage
Mix well with Sense of humour
Sprinkle with a few Tears
Add a helping of Kindness for others
Bake in A good-natured oven
And Dust with laughter
Scrape away Any self-indulgence that is apparent
And Serve with generous helpings.

Another poem!
THERE IS NO ONE QUITE LIKE YOU
There is no one else quite like you
You’re a part of the Universe just as you are
As unique as each tree and each glittering star
There is no one else quite like you.
You’re someone of infinite worth
Who deserves every joy and blessing on earth
There is no one else quite like you.
So treat yourself gently with pride wherever you are
Continue to be true to the person you are deep inside
We will miss you very much when we part
But shall cherish the sweet memories
Of the days we spent together.

And here is something you can use on Valentine Day (if you see this in time!)
If there is one face:
I want to see each day throughout my life.
One smile that makes a difference to everything I do.
If there is - one touch I long to feel
If there is – one voice I wait to hear
If there is – one joy, one love
From which I never want to part with
That someone in my world,
My life, my heart - it is YOU
Loving you fills
My heart with joy!
My world with wonder!
My life with meaning!
And on this day I just want to say -
Thanks for being so special,
So wonderful, So Easy To LOVE!

What do you think about ONE?
I am sure you will change your ideas after reading this:

POWER OF ONE

One BABY can enliven our homes. One BELL can start a prayer.
One BIRD can herald spring. One BLOT on your character can spoil your image.
One CANDLE can lit the hall. One FLOWER can kindle love.
One GUST of wind can rain havoc. One HANDCLASP can lift a soul.
One HEART can guide us to truth. One HOLE can empty a tank.
One ray of HOPE can raise our spirits. One IDEA can make us stand apart from others.
One INCIDENT can change our life. One INVENTION can change our lifestyles.
One LAUGH can conquer gloom. One LOOK can transform the mood.
One PRAYER can lead us to Nirvana. One SIGN can lead us to our goal.
One SMILE can start a friendship. One SONG can recall old memories.
One SPARK can start a fire. One STAR can guide a ship.
One STEP can begin a journey. One STIGMA can tarnish our character..
One SUNBEAM can lift darkness. One TEAR can excite emotions.
One THOUGHT can direct us to wisdom. One TIP can lead us to success.
One TOUCH can heal a wound. One TREE can start a forest.
One VOICE can brighten our day. One VOTE can change the fate of a Nation.
One WORD of encouragement can be the key to ambition.
One WRONG can result in our ruin.
Overall One LIFE can make a difference to all it comes in contact with.

Let us play now with some words?
The most arrogant –1 letter word I – Avoid It
The most pleasant –2 letter word We – Use It Often.
The most poisonous –3 letter word Ego – Suppress It.
The most used –4 letter word Love – Value It
The most pleasing –5 letter word Smile – Spread It
The most nonsensical –6 letter word Rumour – Bury It
The most sought after –7 letter word Success – Strive Towards It
The most undesirable –8 letter word Jealousy – Fight It
The most powerful –9 letter word Knowledge – Acquire It
The most essential –10 letter word Confidence – Win It.

The most dangerous -11letter word Provocation – Conquer It
The most desirable –12 letter word Perseverance – Cultivate It
The most indispensable –13 letter word Determination – Strengthen It.
The most thought provoking –14 letter word Discrimination – Judiciously use it.
The most desirable yet rarely followed –15 letter word Straightforward – Stick to it.

Time to play with words in a different way - a number game:
1 word I am always receptive to We
2 words I always wait to hear You too.
3 words I want always to echo I love you
4 words I am always eager to hear I care for you
5 words I always fear to hear I miss you very much
6 words that always delight me Just be with me and relax
7 words that always enliven my heart The day dawns, we shall share together
8 words that make my day wonderful The day shall traverse with its sweet melodies
9 words that bring peace The night arrives, sleep soundly, enjoy sweet dreams
10 words that I know to be true God is in heaven watching all children of His land

More on Bacronyms
My grandson is very inquisitive, he has gone through my book and deliberately selects words not in the book and questions me. This is based on his queries:
One day he said, a “Historian” is rarely, if at all, present at the scene, so how does he write all that we read in history books, I decided to answer him in my own special way, forming a phrase using only the letters of the word in sequential order. After thinking for some time I finally told him:-
Hearsay Information, Sifting Thoroughly, Objectively Records Incidents And Narratives. Or maybe:
He Imagines Something, Twists Others, Records Idiosyncrasies, Assembles Narratives.
His next query was about “Temptation”, the answer I game him was: -
The Ever Mesmeric Ploy That Attempts To Incite Outrageous Notions.
His next question was about “Abdomen”, the answer was:
Actually Belly, Digestive Organ, Metabolizes Entire Nourishment.
He now came up with “Gymnastics”, it took me quite some time to come up with an answer, but
finally I gave one: -
Gives Your Muscles Noteworthy Adaptability, Stimulus, Thereby Imparting Co-ordination, Strength.
He then wanted to be enlightened about an “Optimist” and a “Pessimist”, well I had to bring out the difference very clearly, here is what he was told: -
Outcome Predictable, Task Is Manageable, I’ll Surely Triumph, and
Predictably, Even Sees Serious Impediments, Machinations, In Small Things.
His next question took me by surprise, it was about “Siesta’, well here was the answer I gave: -
Spain Itinerary - Enjoy Sleep Through Afternoon.
As I said earlier he was testing me as he next came up with “Catastrophe” well fortunately I too had a ready reply for him:
Calamity, Accursed Total Annihilation, Startling Thunderbolt, Result Of Particularly Horrendous Event.
He was ready for some more so I told him no more but on his insistence I said o.k., one more he came up with “Tradition” and the answer I formed was:-
Time-honoured Religious And Dynastic Instructions, Teachings Implemented, Observed, Nostalgically.
Well quite some time back I was fascinated by Acronyms and had been wondering if it would be too difficult to treat ordinary English Dictionary words as Acronyms? I tried and found it an interesting exercise, and started coining, what I preferred to
call - BACRONYMS. Now I have them in a book form published by Minerva Press, Delhi. These words however, as stated at the beginning, are not in the book, but it contains more than 2000 other words. The book is available with D. K. Publishers & Distributors, Ltd., 1 Ansari Road,
Daryaganj, New Delhi or can be had from me –my e-mail address is agr_analytix@sancharnet.in

See if one of this has something in common with you:
i) You are one of those very rare persons and we, probably, do not meet more than 3 or 4 in a lifetime, who do little or nothing of any consequence, make no effort to attract attention, seem content with the commonplace and, yet leave with everybody who knows them an enduring impression of integrity and strength, of vast unused powers of carelessly veiled greatness.
ii)I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and satisfaction of doing one’s work and performing one’s duty harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being and seems to make the days timetable like that of a happy child at play.

Magic of THREE
Three precious things: I have three precious things, which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; and the third is humility; which keep me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold, be frugal and you can be liberal, avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
Three things: There are three things that if a man does not know he cannot live long happily in this world. What is too much for him, what is too little for him and what is just right for him!
Three treacherous sisters: There are three treacherous sisters whom I do not trust as far as I can see them. Their names are FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY. Faith keeps doubtful company and is found in houses of iniquity; Hope takes it in herself to fob men off with promises which have no basis in reality; and Charity sells cheap salves for sore consciences.

Here are some more deft definitions:
Bore A specie of human beings who, when you ask him how he is, tells you so in great detail.
Conscience Spoilsport.
Dieting Losing game, the only game in which we want to lose.
Fear Takes birth to fill the vacuum caused by flight of faith.
Instinct Hard-wire programming at its best.
Jealousy Jaundice of the soul.
Lipstick Something that adds flavour to an age-old pastime of lovers.
Laughter Sunlight of the spirit.
Music The universal dispenser of happiness.
Mourning The chain forged by the mind to bind itself to the departed soul.
Neurotic A person who has discovered the secret of perpetual emotions.
Optimist A hope addict.
Pat The best thing we can do behind a person’s neck.
Smog The air apparent.
Snore Minor earthquake.
Vacation Where tired people go on to exhaust themselves.
Worry Dividend paid to disaster before it is due.

And now a small poem for a change.
I MISS YOU
Fate had only ordained that
We be part of one family,
But our mutual love and care has
Blended us in a MAJESTIC BOND
The sparks of life in me
Maybe slowly, but surely, fading
Yet the purity of my love
Still remains like it were just born.
When miles came between us
And our lives were drawn apart
Our thoughts remained together,
Tugging softly at the heart.
This loneliness without you
Reminds me of special; moments shared,
And says across the miles,
How much we have always cared.
The emptiness that comes
With just the memory of your touch
Stirs a feeling from within that says
I MISS YOU VERY MUCH

Here are some wordings which suitably modified can be used as you like:
GREETINGS
Our paths converged and softly touched
Our hearts moved close in soft greeting
It was time to sample change
It was time for a gentle meeting
An accident of chance, however, became
Our lasting gift that fine day
Some paths do cross lanes
But do not always join in such a way!
We’re glad we have shared so
Many moments which have given
Rise to many lasting memories
Surely the future too will preserve this warmth
That fills our precious time
We’re glad that fate arranged a way
For us and our families to meet when they did!
Wishing you all a magnificent 2003

ii)
Wishing you all
Your own dreams to dream
And see them turn to reality.
Your own songs to sing,
And together enjoy the melody.
Your own happiness to happen,
And bring all round cheer.
Your own light to quietly shine,
And brighten the entire surroundings.
Not only today but for days to come.
Our sincere prayers for a prosperous New Year.

iii)
In our treasure of ever growing memories,
There are so many of which you are a part,
We have shared so many Happy Times,
And in our hearts we have been so close,
That it seems natural and a pleasure,
To send these Warm and Happy Thoughts,
With a sincere wish along the way,
For a very Happy and prosperous New Year.

Time for some interesting one liners:
1. Luck is the residue of design
2. Where boasting ends dignity begins!
3. You can plant anything in an open mind.
4. Success is the tribute life pays to excellence.
5. The city is not a concrete jungle – it is a human zoo?
6. Faith is the bird that feels the light when it is still dark!
7. He who is not ready today will be even less so tomorrow.
8. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself?
9. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
10. Quantity is what you can count, quality is what you can count on!
11. Nature has good intentions but is prevented from carrying them out.
12. The drama is make-believe art, it does not deal with truth but with effect.
13. A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
14. There is no better test of people’s character than their behaviour when they are wrong.

Some stray thoughts
NATURE: Take time each day to commune with nature and to silently witness the intelligence within every living thing that exists. Sit silently and watch a sunset, or listen to the sound of the ocean, or a stream, or simply smell the scent of a flower. Practice non-judgement! Begin each new day with the statement, “Today I shall judge nothing that occurs”.
CONSCIOUS CHANGE: Conscious change is brought about by the two qualities inherent in consciousness:
attention and intention. Attention energizes and intention transforms. Whatever you put your attention on will grow stronger in your life. Whatever you take your attention away from will wither, disintegrate and disappear. Intention on the other hand triggers transformation of energy and information. Intention organizes its own fulfillment.
TIME MANAGEMENT: The essence of effective time management is to organize and execute around balanced priorities. Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.

Time we talked of LOVE
Love is sharing all the wonderful things of life with someone you care about.
By caring for each other’s ups and downs your lives get forever intertwined.
By sharing your hopes, thoughts, dreams your lives will flourish as never before.
Working with each other to build your lives together strengthens your love.
Love as it tightens its grip offers the best in life with that person at its center.
Your love having brought you closer together will create a beautiful HOME.
That Home while still expressing your individuality will abound in harmony.
And yet your love for one another will make that Home an abode for peace.
Very rich in HAPPINESS and Filled with everlasting LOVE for each other.

Some more Bacronyms, courtesy my grandson:
ABBREVIATE Abridge By Broadly Retaining Evident, Viable, Initial Alphabets, Tersely Express.
ABDOMEN Actually Belly, Digestive Organ, Metabolizes Entire Nourishment.
ABSTRACT A Brief, Somewhat Technical Record About Certain Topic.
ACCOST Approach, Call Curtly, Often Seeking Trade.
ACE Acknowledged Champion, Expert.
ADO Activity Dramatized Overmuch.
ADOBE Atmospherically Dried Ordinary Brick, Essentially.
ADROIT Adept, Dexterous, Result Oriented, Industrious Type.
Adept, Diligent, Remarkably Orientates Imbibing Technology.
AGAIN Astutely Go And Iterate Naively (innocently).
AGNOSTIC Argues God's Non-existence, Omnipotence Suspect Thinks Ill-founded, Controversial.
AGONY Acute Grief Oppressively Needling You.
ALGORITHMS A List, Guide Outlining Rigid Instruction That Help Mathematical Solutions.

ANNOUNCEMENT A Noisy Notice Of Utilitarian Nature Concerning Ephemeral (of short duration) Meetings, Events Now Transpiring.
ANTICIPATION Assimilating Noteworthy, Tangible Ideas, Carefully Interpreting, Pick-up Alternative That Is Obvious Now.
ARBITRATION Accepting Results By Inducting Trustworthy Representative Allocate Titles Impartially Operating, Normally.
ARCHITECT Artistically Raises Community Houses Integrating Tastefully Environmental Conditions, Trends.
ARITHMETIC Assemblage Recording Interrelationships That Help Mathematical Evaluation; Tool In
Computation.
ARMISTICE Agreement Restricting Military Intransigence, Striving To Infuse Conciliatory Environment.
ASPIRE Ambitiously Seek, Pursuing Intently, Results Envisaged.
ASSESS Assiduously Scrutinize, Scientifically Evaluate, Shrewdly Summarize.
ASTHMA Almost Suffocates, Typically Hinders, Mismanages, Aspiration.
ATTAIN Achieve Target Tenaciously Acting, Impediments Notwithstanding.
ATTEMPT Activity Taken-up To Efficiently Manage Projected Tasks.
ATTEND Ably Tend Tasks Entrusted Now, Duty-bound.
AUGURS Approaching Upheavals, Gauges Uncannily, Reveals Symbolically.
AVOID Alienated, Vanish Or Intentionally Duck.
BEAR Barriers Erode Acting Resolutely. (When efforts bear fruit)
BEDLAM Boisterous Environment, Demonstration. Lunatic Asylum, Maybe.
BEING Briefly Explaining Implications, Neatly Guide. (This being the case)
BIDE Build Intentionally Delays, Expectantly.
BLUNDER Bothersome, Look Unpardonable, Nay, Devastating Error Really.
BOMBARD Blast Off Mercilessly Bitterly Attacking Resolute Defenders.
BOTCH Bungle Or Tackle Clumsily Howsoever.
BOYCOTT Blatantly Ostracize; Yammer Cynically Objecting To Trivia.
CAMERA Captures Artistically Memorable Events, Resplendent Atmosphere.
CANOPY Covering, A Nest Overhead Protecting You.
CARE Consider All Requirements Endearingly.
CAST Create And Shape Tidily.
CASTE Classification Affirming, Strictly, Traditional Equations.
CATASTROPHE Calamity, Accursed Total Annihilation, Startling Thunderbolt, Result Of Particularly
Horrendous Event.
CAUSE Carefully Activate, Underhand, Some Effect.
CHART Compilation Having All Relevant Tabulations.
CHRONIC Condition Having Recurrence Of Nerve-racking Illness, Complaints.
CHUMP Characterizes Half-witted, Unwise, Mediocre Person.
CITE Checking Importance Take Excerpts.
CLAMOUR Cry Loudly, Avidly, Making Odd, Unseemly, Request.
CLONING Creating Look-alike Organism Nakedly (Undisguised) Ignoring Normal Generation.(Procreation)
CLOSE Completely Lock Or Secure Externally / Shut-down Everything.
CLOUD Condensed Liquid Overland, Universal Drip.
COACHES Concentrating On Academic Courses Helps Evolve Solutions.
COBWEB Clear, Ornate, Beautifully Woven, Elegant Barricade.
COMBAT Cradle Of Mighty Battles Against Tyranny.
Craftily Operate, Manage Business Attacking Troublemakers.
COME Cross Over Moving Endearingly.
COMMAND Curtly Outlining Methodology Make Aware - No Defiance.
COMMAND Cull Out Meaningful Messages, Assessing Needs Distinctly.
COMMERCE Concerns Overall Material Management Ensures Resource Control Efficiently.
COMPOSE Create Original Music Piece - Often Sounding Ethereal.
CON Confidently Outwit - Nefariously.
Cunningly Outwit Nonchalantly.
CONCEDE Convinced Options Not Conducive Embrace(Choose) Defeat Embarrassingly/Eventually.
CONCENTRATE Closely Operate, Nay, Coordinate Endeavour Nimbly To Really Achieve Target Early.
CONCEPTS Convey Our Notions Concisely Enunciating Problems Theoretical Solution.
CONDEMN Contemptuously Or Nastily Disapprove Effort Made Naively.
CONDESCEND Carefully Observing Norms, Decide Extending Some Concessions
Eventually, Nobly, Demurely.
Convinced Otherwise, Nobly Decide Extending Some Concessions Eventually Now, Duty-bound.
CONDITION Clearly Outlined, Neatly Defined, Integral Terms, Irrevocably Operational Now.
CONFER Check Others Notions Formally Eliciting Rationale.
CONFIRM Critically Observing Numerous Factors Indicated, Reaffirm Meekly.
CONFISCATE Complying Official Notice Forcefully Invade Seize Cash, Articles, Trivia, Everything.
CONQUER Completely Overcome, Nay Quell, Uproot Enemy Ruthlessly.
CONSORT Companion Openhearted, Nay, Spouse Of Royal Title-holder.
CONTRIBUTE Considering Objectives, Need, Tender Resources, Indeed Bestow, Unhesitatingly, Time, Expertise.
CONTRIVE Carefully Originate Novel Techniques Reasoning Intelligently, Venturesomely Execute.
CONTROL Conduct Operations Nimbly Tracking Results Outcome Levelheadedly.
CORDIAL Conduct Outright Respectful, Decent, Intimate And Loving.
CRATER Cavity, Residue After Terrible Explosion Ravages.
CUNNING Crafty, Unusually Naughty, Nifty, Insidious, Normally Greedy.
CURRENT Clear Unadorned Reference Regarding Experiences Now Transient.
CURSOR Computer Use Related Symbol, Overviews Recording.
CURTAIL Cut Unaccountably, Restrict, Take Away Initiative Lamely.
CUT Clear Ulcerous Tear.
Contagious Unsafe Tear.
CUT Cause Unadorned Tear.
DAMP Distinctly A Moist Part.
DAMPEN Drawing Attention Make Pessimistic Elucidation, Nervously.
DATA Details Assembled Through Appraisals/Answers.
DEBACLE Defeat Extraordinary Brought About Clumsily Losing Easily.
DEBAR Duty-bound Exclude Because Against Rules.
DEBATE Discuss Elaborately, Boldly Argue, Thence Evaluate.
DECIMATE Destroy Entirely Certain Items, Materials, Acting Thoroughly Embittered
DECORATE Deftly Engineer, Charismatic (Creative, Often Rare) Objects, Really Artistic, Theme
Eclectically.
DEDICATE Doggedly Execute, Devoting Intently Carefully Attend Tasks Entrusted.
DEFEND Devilish Enemy Fiercely Engage Now Determinedly.
DEFLECT Divert Essentially From Likely Earlier Course, Tangibly.
DEMAND Desire Explicitly, Matter-of-fact Assert Nicely Dictating.
DEMISE Death, Eventual Movement Into Supreme/Supernatural Empire.
DEMOLISH Destroy Entirely, Most Often Labeled Illegal, Structures High-handedly.
DENTURE Duplicates Eventually Natural Teeth Using Replicas Efficiently.
DEPLETE Demand Exceeding Procurement Levels, Expend Thereby/Things Excessively.
DEPLORE Deeply Expostulate, Poignantly Lament Often Raving Emotionally..
DEPRESSION Deep Emotional Paralysis, Roundly Entailing Severe Strain, Induces Obdurate
Nervousness.
DESIRE Details, Emotionally Satisfying, Intentions Requiring Execution
DESTINY Direction Earmarked Specifically That Is Now Yours.
Destination Elemental, Sacrosanct That Is Now Yours.
DETERMINATION Displaying Enthusiasm, Tackle Everything Resolutely, Managing Impediments, Neatly Attempt To Influence Others Nicely.
DETERMINED Despite Encountering Ticklish Emergencies Resolutely Make
In-roads, Neatly Executing Decisions.
DEVOTE Do Everything Viable Or Try Enthusiastically.
DHARMA Distinctive, Hereditary Attributes; Recognized Moral Authority.
DIAGRAM Drawing, Ideally A Graphic Representation Appropriately Measured.
DICTATE Deliver Instructions Clearly Telling Authoritatively - Tamely Execute.
DIM Dull, Indistinct, Misty.
DISC Digitally Inter-acting Stores Commands.
DISCRIMINATION Differentiation In Specific Circumstances, (Cases) Readily Ignoring Moral Inhibitions
Nonchalantly And Trusting Intuition, Opted Now.
DISCUSS Delve Intelligently, Suggest, Clarify, Ultimately Surfing Solution.
DISMAY Disappointment Intensely Shattering, Maddening, Agonizing You.
DISPLAY Distinctly, Imaginatively, Showcase Products, Luring, Attracting You.
DISPOSITION Displays Inclination, Sensitiveness, Projecting Outright Susceptibilities In Temperament Indicating Offhand Nuances.
DISSUADE Discourage, Informing, Somewhat Seriously, Using Arguments, Drawbacks Expected.
DISTRIBUTE Deliver Items Selectively To Recipient Individuals Bequeathing Ultimately To Everyone.
DISTURB Deliberately Interfere Showing Thereby Unduly Rude Behaviour.
DIVEST Deprive, Intrinsically Violating Etiquette, Snatch Things.
DIVULGE Disclose Information Viciously, Unabashedly Laughing, Give-away Essence.
Deliver Intelligence, Violating Understanding, Leaking Grisly Everything.
DOLE Dependence On Limited Endowment.
DOPE Drug, Overall, Performance Enhances.
DOWRY Demand, Outright Worrisome, Rocks You.
Demand Overshadowing Wedding, Recoils You.
DREAD Deeply Reflect Expecting Awesome Doings.
DREAM Defying Reality Expect A Miracle. (refers to daydreaming/imagining)
DYSPHASIA Dignified Yet Some Pronunciation Hindrance Affecting Speech Inhibits Actions.

ECLECTIC Everything Charismatic Looking Evaluate Critically Thereafter Ideas Choose.
EFFACE Erase Fully Facts And Cleanse Entirely.
EFFECT Emergent Findings From External Circumstances, Transactions.
ELATION Exuberance, Lively Attitude That Induces Optimism Normally.
ELIMINATE Examine Looking Intently, Make Initial Noting And Thence Exclude.
ELOPEMENT Exercise Lovers Occasionally Perform Entering Marriage Elusively, Nervously Though.
ELUCIDATE Explain Logically, Unfolding (Developing) Certain Important Details And Tactfully Edit.
EMBRACE Excitedly Meet By Reaching Across Clasping Emotionally.
EMERGE Enter, Move Expectantly, Reveal, Get Exposed.
ENDURE Experiencing Nuisance, Disturbance Ultimately Reconcile Expediently.
EQUAL Exact Quantity, Undoubtedly, Accurately Level.
EQUATION Enunciates Quite Unambiguously A Technical Interpretation Operationally Necessary.
Essentially Quantifies, Usually Algebraically, Technical Information
Operationally Necessary.
ESPOUSE Extend Support, Propagating Objectives Utility Specifically Explain.
ESTRANGE Engage Such That Relationship Alienates Noticeably, Get Entangled.
ETHIC Etiquette That Human Idealism Crystallizes. (Conceptualizes)
EXAMINATION Evaluates, X-raying, Assessing Methods, Ideas Novel Approach, That Is Obtruding Now.
EXAMINATION Encompasses X-ray, Alternate Medical Information Necessary, Assesses, Thereafter, Illness Overall Nature.
FACET Feature, Aspect, Concisely Expressed Theory.
FACILITATE Finally Accepting Certain Ideas List Impediments, Train, Allow Thereafter Execution.
FAMINE Fatal Adverse Monsoons Influencing Nation's Economy.
FIERCE Fearsome, Inherently Explosive, Really Completely Evil-eyed.
FILE Fragmented Information Links Efficiently.
FIT Fully Informed, Trained.
FLAT Fully Level And Taut.
FLEE Forcibly Leave, Edgily Escape.
FOE Fiercely Outpours Enmity.
FOR Focuses On Recipient.
FORBID Forcefully Order, Restricting Behaviour, Irately Direct.
FORCE Follow-up Offensively, (Aggressively) Registering Compliance Eventually.
Firmly Order Requiring Compliance Explicitly.
FORTUNE Favours, Outlandish Rewards, Though Unthinkable, Nevertheless Emerge.
FRAME Falsely Raise Accusations Manufacturing Evidence.
FREE Formally Release, Enable Escape.
FRIENDSHIP Firm Relationship Is Entered, Nobly Developed, Sincerity Here Is Paramount.
FUMBLE Feeling Unnerved Maunder (Move or act listlessly) Briefly, Losing Equipoise.
FURTHER Foretell Unusually Repercussions That Hinder Early Results.
FUTURE Forthcoming, Unstoppable Time, Unfailingly Rules Everywhere.
GAG Guard Against Groans.
GATHER Get Articles, Technical History, Extensively Research.
GESTICULATE Grinning Expectantly Seek Through Indications Complete Understanding, Literally Air Thoughts Effectively. (Clearly )Undulating Limbs Achieve Thoughts Exchange.
GIMMICKRY` Gingery Innovation, Mind-boggling Magic, Interesting Commentary, Keep Reveling You.
GOVERN Giving Orders Very Effectively Rule, Nurse (Promote development).
GRADE Give Rating And Decide Eligibility.
GRADUAL Guided, Regulated And Delicately Undertaken Action Largely.
GRADUATE Grasp Reasoning Ability, Develop Understanding And Technical Expertise.
GRAPH Gives Readily, Accurately, Performance History.
GRAPPLE Grip Roughly And Pin, Push, Lunge Energetically.
GRAVE Ground Retained After Veritable End.
GRAVITY Ghastly Realisation About Vital Implications Threatening You.
GROSS Generally Rude, Obscene, Somewhat Squalid.
GUILD Generates Understanding, Intelligent Learning, Diligence.
GYMNASTICS Give Your Muscles Noteworthy Adaptability, Stimulus, Thereby Imparting
Coordination Strength.
HAIL Hydrous, Albeit, Ice Laden.
HAND Happily And Neatly Deliver.
HANDICAP Have A Nasty Disability, Invariably Causing Additional (Auxiliary) Problems.
Hinders Activity, Nasty Disability, It Confers Advantages, Priorities.
Hardship Accompanying Nasty Disability, It Curtails Activity Partially.
HARBINGER Heralds, Announces, Reflectively Brings Important News Generating Excitement
Rapturously.
HARBOUR Help, Accommodate Rogue By Offering, Unashamedly, Resources.
Help Arrange Refuge, Befriend, Often, Unrepentant Rogue.
HAUGHTY Highly Arrogant, Uncompromising, Generally Harsh, Taunts You.
HECTIC Highly Excited, Concludes Thoughtlessly Ignoring Consequences.
HEROIN Highly Effective Relief Option, Insidious Narcotic.
HISTORIAN He Imagines Something, Twists Others, Records Idiosyncrasies, Assembles Narratives.
Hearsay Information Sifting Thoroughly Objectively Records Incidents And Narratives.
HOARD Hold On, Amass, Refuse Dealings.
HOLE Hideous Orifice, Leaking Eternally.
HOLI Hindus Outpouring Lavishly Impudence. (Impertinence)
HOLIDAY Harbinger Of Leisure In Delightful Atmosphere Yonder.
HONOUR Highlight One’s Nobleness, Offer Unreservedly Regard.
HOPE Highly Optimistically Picturised Expectations.
Herald Optimism, Parade Expectations.
Highlight Our Prime Expectations.
HOROSCOPE History Objectively Reviews, Observing Stars Course, Optimistically Predicts Events.
Having Obtained Records Of Stars Course, Optimistically Predicts Events.
HOVEL House Offering Very Exasperating Living.
HYPOTHESIS Helps You - Properly Outline Theory, Highlight Essential Steps, Import (Inject)
Simplicity.
IMPLICATE Immorally Move Picking Loopholes In Certain Actions, Then Entangle.
IMPOLITE Impudent, Makes Painful Or Loose Indecent Talk Egoistically.
IMPORTANT It Means Positively Of Relevance Therefore Absolutely Necessary Too.
IMPOSE Inflict, Make Potently Obligatory Some Enactment.
INCIDENTAL Inferences Not Consciously Imagined; Denouements Even Not Thought About Literally.
INCLINATION Intuitive Natural Choice, Leanings Influencing, Nudgingly, Alternative That Is Opted
Now.
INDULGE Impetuously Noticing Desire Utterly, Lavishly Gratify Ego.
INERT It Never Exerts, Resists, Transforms.
INFATUATION Intense Newfangled Feelings, Attachment Thought Unnatural And Totally Idealistic Or Nutty.
INFER Interpreting Numerous Facets, Expectations Reveal.
INFORMATION Important News, Facts, Or Recorded Mandatory Activity, That Is Often Noteworthy.
INFURIATE Incite, Nay, Force Unacceptable Regimen, Incite Almost To Exasperation.
INJECT Insert Needle Judiciously, Essential Chemicals Transfer.
INQUISITIVE Immensely Nosy, Quite Unashamedly Interferes Seeking Information That Is Very Exclusive.
INSIDE Ideally Notifies Specific Items Detailed Elsewhere. (reference is to newspapers, magazines.)
INSPECT Impassively Notice Specific Points Examining Critically Technicalities.
INSTINCT Inherent Natural Susceptibility, That Interprets, Normally Correctly, Things.
INSTRUMENT Identifies Normally Someone Truly Responsible, Unveiling Means Employed, Naturally, Thereto.
INSTRUMENTAL It Normally Specifies Those Responsible, Unveiling Means Employed Now To Achieve Lead.
INTERVENE Initiate Nobly, Thinking Enterprisingly, Reconciliation, Virtually Ending Now Estrangement.
INTERVIEW Identify Natural Traits, Expertise, Record Visual Impressions, Evaluate Worth.
INTRICATE Involves Novel Techniques, Really Innovative, Creative, Art That Engrosses.
Integrates Novel Techniques Really Innovative, Complex Albeit Truly Enticing.
IRATE Is Really Angry, Truly Enraged.
IRE Irritation Released Egoistically.
IRRITATION It Reflects Really Irksome Tensions As They Influence Our Nature.
It Revolves Round Inability To Accept Things Incidentally Ongoing Now.
JAIL Judicially Authorized Internment Location.
JEALOUSY Just Envy And Lack Of Understanding Smarting (Rankling)You.
KISS Knitted Intimately Surely Seductive.
Kindness It Showers Smilingly.
LASH Lambaste Angrily, Scare, Humiliate.
LEAN Lightly Encase, Attach Naively.
LEAST Lowest Entity; Also Smallest Thing.
LIE Let Imagination Explode.
LIES Libelous Insinuations Exploiting Situation.
LIFT Look It Flap, Transports.
LIGHT Lustily Illuminates Generating Heat Too.
LIMP Lameness Indicates, Movement Painful.
LISP Little Imperfect Speech, Pronunciation.
LIPSTICK Lascivious, Incites Passions, Sweet Taste In Carnal Kisses.
LOAD Lift Over And Deposit.
LOBE Lambent Organ, Beautifies Ear.
LORE Legends Of Remote Era.
LOYAL Literally Obeys You Ardently Loving.
LUCK Life’s Undependable Calendars Knob.
Life’s Unique Course Kneads/Knows.
LUNATIC Largely Unstable, Nay, A Totally Insane Character.
LURCH Launch Unsteadily, React Clumsily, Half-heartedly.
MACHISMO Man Actively Cultivating His Identity, Stomping Masculinity, Obsessively.
MAIM Maliciously Attacking Incapacitate, Mutilate.
MANIA Mental Affliction, Nerve-racking Inadvertent Aggression.
MATCH Meticulously Arrange Tallying Critical Hallmarks.
MEDDLE Misguidedly Engage, Deal; Doubtless Lacking Etiquette.
MENACE Machinations, Entirely Nasty Actions, Contrived Evil-mindedly.
Manipulations, Even Naughty Actions, Consciously Executed.
MESSAGE Meaningful, Educative Statement; Sometimes A Guarded Entreaty.
METTLE Moral Excellence, Testimonial Tracing Laudable Etiquette.
MICROSCOPE Magnifying Instrument, Carefully Reaching Objects Smallest Constituent, Overall, Perfectly Enlarges.
MINOR Main Inference – Not Overly Relevant.
MINOR Majority Is Not Officially Recognized.
MIRACLE Mysterious Intervention, Rewarding Act, Conditions Lovingly Enlivens.
MISHAP Misadventurous Incident, Scary Happening, Accidental Predicament.
MITIGATE Make Immediately Troubles Ineffective, Generally Assist Total Elimination.
MODEM Modulation Or Demodulation Easily Manipulates (handles with skill)/Manages.
MODERN Mesmeric Outrageous Demeanour Everyone Reveres Nowadays.
MONITOR Meticulously Observe, Note Imperfections, Thereafter Objectively Recast/Remedy.
MONUMENT Majestic, Outstanding National Unsullied Memorial Enduring Natural Turbulence.
MORPHINE Mainly Opium, Relieves Pain, Helps In Nursing Enormously.
MOTIVE Main Object That Initiates Venture Emergence/Execution.
MUSTER Mobilize, Urge, Support, Try Establishing Rapport.
MUTILATE Mercilessly Upset Through Injury, Limb Amputate, Thereby Embitter.
MUTTER Murmur, Unstrung - Try To Express Reaction.
NAPE Neck, Albeit Partly Eclipsed.
NARRATE Noticed Activities Relate Religiously And Truthfully Express.
NASCENT Natural Action Systematically, Calmly, Evolving, Now Tangible.
NATURAL Normal Activity That’s Usually Rational And Logical.
NAUGHTY Nosy, Affably Unruly, Generally Haughty, Tries You.
NAY Nearly Appropriate, Yet.
NEAT Noticeably Elegant And Tidy.
NECROMANCY Narrating Extrasensory Communications, Relate Observations Monitored And News Concerning You.
NEGOTIATE Notify Expectations, Gather Options, Thereafter Interact Amiably, Tactfully Engage.
NEITHER Necessarily Exclude Items, Things Hitherto Explicitly Referred.
NETWORK Nimbly(quickly) Exchanges The World Over Research, Knowledge.
NIGHTMARE Nasty Incident Generating Highly Traumatic Memories, Agonizing Recurrent Experience.
NOISE Naughty, Obnoxious Interference, Signal Error.
NUMB Now Under Mental Block.
NURSE Nimble, Unwaveringly Reorients Sick Earthlings.
NUT Nucleus, Usually Tough.
OBSERVE Ordinary Behaviour, Scenes, Events, Reactions View Expectantly.
OFF Obvious – Final Footwork.
OFFEND Originating Fiendishly Facts, Excuses, Naively/Noticeably Displease.
OMEN Obliquely (Indirectly) Mirrors Events Nascent.
ON Operational Now.
OPIUM Organic Poppy Is Used Medically. (Unripe poppy seeds are used to prepare morphine.)
OPTIMIST Outcome Predictable, Task Is Manageable, I'll Surely Triumph. (Succeed Totally)
ORGAN Object Regulating Germane Activity Naturally.
OTHER Option That Helps Ensure Results.
OVERT Ostensive Venture Executed Rather Tranquilly.
OWNER One With Necessary Executive Rights.
PACE Performance Adjustment Criterion Essentially.
Precisely Assesses Competitiveness Early.
PAD Protects Any Damage. Protection Against Damage.
PAGAN Pantheist, All Gods Accepts, Non-religious.
PAGINATE Papers Arrange, Give Intelligently Numbers And Tidily Enter.
PARALYSIS Permanently Affects Reactions And Leaves Your Sensibilities Incapacitated Selectively.
PART Painfully Abandon, Resenting Treatment.
PASSION Prime Attraction, Sometimes Sexual, Irresistible Obsession Normally.
PASSIVE Pliant And Submissive, Simply Indifferent Very, Easygoing.
PASTURE Place Animals Satisfy Their Urge Regarding Eatables.
PATCH Peace Accomplished Through Compromise Half-way.
Promote Affability Trying Compromise Humanely.
PATENT Plagiarizing Attempt Thwarts Expressly Notifying Title-holder.
PATRON Person Assuming Total Responsibility, Oft-times, Nobly.
PERHAPS Pointedly Express Reservations Hinting About Possible Shift.
PERSEVERANCE Passively Enduring Reverses Strive Evermore Valiantly, Errors Rectify And Normally
Continue Exercise.
Patiently Enduring Reverses, Seek Ever Vigilantly Effective Remedies And Nimbly Continue Endeavour.
PERSEVERE Persist, Enduring Reverses Steadfastly Engaging Verily, Expect Results Eventually.
PERSIST Pursue, Engage Relentlessly, Somehow Induct Success Thereafter.
PERVADE Permeate, Extend Reach Virtually All-round Diffusing Everywhere.
PESSIMIST Predictably, Even Sees Serious Impediments, Machinations, In Small Things.
PHOBIA Phantasm Hindering Ordinary Behaviour Inflaming Aversion.
PIERCE Penetrate Instrument Entailing Rupture, Causing Eruption.
PITY Pathetic Impetus Taxing You.
PLACE Patiently Look And Cleverly Expose.
Painstakingly Locate After Cautiously Exploring.
PLEA Patently Legalistic Entreaty, Appeal.
PLEASE Praise, Lavishly Entertain And Satisfy Expectantly.
PLOT Programme Launching Orgious (Stormy)Treachery.
PORTEND Proclaim Ominously, Reveal Tentatively Events Now Developing/Destined.
POSITION Place Objects Specifically In Their Indicated Order Neatly.
POSITION Place Overview, Specific Information That Indicates Outlines Noticeably.
POSTMAN Patronizingly Offers Services Transmitting Mail And News.
PRACTICE Persist Repeating Actions Calculatively Thereby Improving Competitiveness Evermore.
PRAGMATIC Practical, Rational Approach Govern Main Actions, This Individuals Cornerstone
(indispensable part or basis).
PRATE Precisely - Rattle Along Talking Endlessly.
PREACH Paraphrase Religious Education And Conduce Holiness.
PREAMBLE Purpose, Rationale Expounds And Material Background Logically Explains.
PREDICT Pointedly Reveal Events Due In Coming Times.
PREPARE Provide Resources, Ensure Provisions Availability Relatively Early.
PRESENT Period Relating Events Surfacing Explicitly Now, Turning-point. (Turning-point as present instantly changes future into past.)
PREVARICATE Pass Remarks Evasively, Viciously Act, Run In Circles And Truth Evade.
PREVENT Preemptively Resist, Even Violently, Eventually, Noticeably Tame.
PRISONER Person Rightly Interned, Seemingly Offense Notified Established Reasonably.
PRISTINE Pure, Relict (Object surviving in primitive form) Its State Truly Inviolate, Natural Ever.
PRIVATE Personal, Really Intimate Vivid Account, Totally Exclusive.
PROBABILITY Processing Realistically Outcomes Behaviour, Authentically Building Its Likelihood, Intelligibly, Tells You.
PROBABLE Points Realistically Outcome By Accounting Broadly Likelihood, Eventuality.
PROBE Painstakingly Reconstruct Operations, Bust/Bracket Evildoers.
PROCLAIM Publicly Reveal Or Clearly, Loudly Announce Important Message.
PROCRASTINATE Proceed Reluctantly Or Considerably Restrict Activity Stressing Trouble Imminent Now, Action Totally Evade.
PROFIT Positive Result Of Fortuitous Investments, Transactions.
PROGRAM Pointedly/Precisely Reasoning, Objectively Grouped Requirements, Addresses
Methodically/Meticulously.
PROGRAM Precisely Reasoning Over Grouped Requirements Addressed Methodically.
Prime Rules, Overall Governing, Regulating Activity Manifesto.
PROMOTE Performance Review Outstanding, Meets Other Terms, Elevate.
PROOF Precise Reasoning Objectively Outlining Formulation.
PROPAGATE Providing Resources Openly Publicize Activity, Get Audience Then Educate.
PROSECUTE Producing Record Of Stated Evil-doing Carefully Unfold Telling Evidence.
PROSTITUTE Perversely Relies On Sex Trade, Initially Tense, Ultimately Tramples Emotions.
PROVOCATION Pointed Remarks, Observations, Vicious, Offensive Causing Antagonism, Thereby Inciting Obnoxious Notions
PROVOKE Pass Remarks, Obviously Vacuous, Offensive, Kindling Estrangement.
PUNISH Peeved, Upset, Nastily Inflict Some Hardship. (Harm)
PUSTULE Pimples, Untidy, Septic, That, Usually, Liken Encapsulation.
PYROMANIA Pokes You Relentlessly Ordering – Move About Now – Ignite Anything.
Psychosomatic, Yet Reprehensible, Obsession Ministering And Naughtily Inciting Arson.
QUIZ Questions Understanding, Intelligence, Zeal.
RADIO Receives Airwaves. Diverts Information Outwards.
RANSOM Release Amount Nefariously Sought, Outrageously Mostly.
RATION Restricted Allocation To Individuals Of Necessities.
RECAPITULATE Recount Emphatically Crucial Aspects Projecting Information That Understandably
Links All Targeted Expectations.
RECEIPT Records Expenditure Covering Every Item Purchased Tidily.
REFER Requiring Extra Facts Explore Resources.
REFUTE Rebut Entirely Falsities Using Tangible Evidence.
REINCARNATION Recalling Earlier Incidents, Neatly Connects, Assuming Rebirth Now, Assertively Those Inexplicable Occurrences Nostalgically.
RELATIVE Represents Every Legal, Ancestral Tie, Induces Varying Emotions.
RELENT Reviewing Experience, Listen, Eschewing Negative Thinking.
REMEMBRANCE Recalling Enchanting Memories, Endearing Moments, Blissful, Rapturous And Nostalgic Charming Episodes.
RENTAL Routine Expenditure Notably Towards Accommodation Leased.
RESERVE Release/Receive Exclusive, Specific Entitlement, Rights Very Explicitly.
RESIST Refuse, Enduring Strong Insistence Stand Tough.
RESORT Regal Establishment Selectively Offering Relaxation Typically.
RESPONSIBLE Reliable, Earnestly Serves, Pursues Objectives Nonchalantly, Strives Industriously Besides Listening Enthusiastically.
RESUME Recommence, Earlier Stopped Undertaking, Musing Expectantly.
RETALIATE Respond Earlier Threats, Aggressively Launch Intimidating Attack Thwarting Evildoers.
REVENGE Retaliation Executed Victoriously, Enables Nearly Get Even.
REVOLT React Expressing Violently Opposition Literally Threatening.
REWARD Realistic Expectation With Achievement Record Dazzling.
RIGMAROLE Releasing Information, Goings-on, Mechanically And Ritually Offering Lengthy
Explanations.
RILE Rudely Irritate, Leave Exasperated.
RING Ritualistic, Inimitable, Nuptial Governor.
Round Indent Notifying Growth.
RIPOSTE Retort Instinctively Poured, Often Sarcasm Tersely Expressed.
ROB Remove One’s Belongings.
ROTATE Revolve Orbit, Turn And Transfer Everything.
SABOTAGE Scurrilously Act, Blatantly Organize Treacherous Activities, Grisly Execute.
SATIATE Satisfy A Taste In Anything That Enchants.
SATISFACTION Success After Tackling Impediments Steadfastly Faced Assuredly Comforts, Thrills,
Incidentally Overcoming Nervousness.
SCAN Surf Carefully And Note.
SCAPEGOAT Someone Clandestinely Accused, Permitting Entire Guilty Offenders Avoid Trap.
SCATTER Search Carelessly And Thereafter Throw Everything Randomly.
SCORE Success Chart, Overall Ranking Establishes.
SEAL Secure, Effectively Avoids Leakage.
SEAL Special Endorsement Acceptable Legally.
SEARCH Scan Every Available Reference Carefully, Hunt.
SELECT Suitability, Economics, Limitations Evaluate, Choose Thereafter.
SENSIBLE Systematically Evaluates New Schemes, Ideas By Looking Exhaustively.
SENTIMENT Standard Emotional Notions That Influence Mental Equilibrium, Naively Transmitted.
SEPERATE Scrutinize Every Piece, Ensure Required Attributes, Thereafter Extract.
Specifically Entails Putting Each Related Article Together Eventually.
SEPTUM Simply Expressed - Partition That's Urbane Mount (Suave Frame/Support).
SHADOW Space Having A Dark Overspread, Wavery.
SHATTER Sharply Hit And Totally Tear, Effectively Ruining.
SHAVE Scrape Hairs Attaining Velvety Effect.
SHIATSU Sophisticated Healing Instrument, Acupressure Type System, Utilitarian.
SHOT Specific Hit On Target.
SHUN Strictly, He’s Unwelcome Now.
SIESTA Spain Itinerary - Enjoy Sleep Through Afternoon.
SIGN Symbolic Indication, Guides Noticeably.
SIGNAL Specifically Indicate, Get Noticed And Lead.
SILENT Speechless, Inference Lacks Explanation, Nervous, Tense.
SIMIAN Sub-human Imitative Monkeys Includes Apes Normally.
SIMPLETON Stupid Individual, Mostly Pliant, Led Easily Talks Often
Nonsensically.
SINCERE Steadfast In Nakedly Complying Every Reasonable Expectation.
SINISTER Somewhat Inimical, Nasty Intentions, Sadistic Thoughts, Ever Repugnant.
SIR Shrewdly Inserted Respect.
SITUATION Specific Information That Underscores About The Incident Ongoing Now.
SKIP Sir, Kindly Ignore Portion.
SLANDER Sordid Language And Nasty, Detrimental, Embarassing, References.
SLOG Strenuous Labour, Onerous Going.
SMASH Strike Maniacally And Shatter Hurriedly.
SMEAR Stain Marks Embed. Anoint Ritually.
SNARL Speak Nastily, Angrily Rumble, Leer.
SOMETIME Superficial Observation Meaning – Elastic; This Implies Maybe Essentially.
SORRY Sense Of Remorse Reassuring You.
SORT Spread Over, Rearrange Thereafter. /Scrutinize, Orderly.
SPACE Separating Points Aesthetically Conditions Environment.
SPILL Speak Perfidiously, Information Leak Luridly.
SPIN Swirl Powerfully, Impressively, Nimbly.
SPIRIT Seemingly Permanent Inherited Resilience, Instinctive Tenacity.
SPITE Sarcasm Present In Thoughts Expressed.
Somewhat Peeved, Irritation Tersely Express.
SPOT See Particular Object, Trace.
SPUR Stimulate, Passionately Urge Really.
SQUANDER Spend Quite Unnecessarily, Acting Nutty Demand Everything Resolutely.
STAIN Spot That Attracts Immediate Notice.
STALE Simply Taken - Aged Left-over Eatables.
STALL Slow-down Temporarily Activity Leading Listlessly.
STAND Simply Translates Action Now Decided.
STANDARD Scientifically Tested Acceptability Norm, Diligently Applied, Reasonably Dependable.
START Swiftly Take-off And Race Thereafter. (start a race)
Study Thoroughly, Accept Responsibility Thereafter. (start a business)
STARVE Stop Taking All Refreshments, Various Eatables.
STATISTICS Systematic Tabulations Analyzing Technical Information, Sometimes Though It Conceals
Something.
STIFLE Stop, Timely, Impending Feelings Likely Explosion.
Suppress, Timely Influence Feelings Likely Expression.
STIGMA Something Tarnishing Image Giving Mental Affliction.
Sudden Tragic Incident Generating Mental Affliction.
STILL Silent, Tense, Inert, Looks Lifeless.
STILL Seriously Tell Identifying Lurking Lacunae.
STIMULANT Stratagem That Induces Me Unhesitatingly Lunge After Named Task.
STIMULUS Supportive Tonic Inducing Momentum Uncannily Launches Us Steadily.
STRAP Support That Regulates Appropriate Position.
STRATEGY Steamroller That Really Acts To Ensure Greater Yield.
Steps That Remarkably Accelerate Transformation Ensuring Greater Yield.
STRESS Strongly Tell Repeating Every Single Sentence.
STRICT Stand Takes Rigidly, Insists Compliance Thereof.
STRIP Swinging Temptingly Remove Items Piecemeal.
STROP Sharpens The Razor, Obliquely Polishes.
STUMP Stymie, Tackling Unbelievably, Mentally Paralyze.
Say Things Unexpected, Momentarily Puzzle.
SURETY Someone Undertaking Responsibility Entailing Timely Yield. (Results)
SURGERY Skillfully Undertaken Repairs, Grafting, Engineering, Rejuvenates You.
SURPRISE Sensational, Unexpected Results Presented Rolling Information Somewhat Emotionally.
Submit Unbelievable Results, Proudly Recount Information Stumping Everyone.
SWEAT Skin Watering Especially After Tiredness.
SYMBOL Sign, Yet Meaningful, Briefs Onlookers Lucidly.
TACKLE Task Accomplish Covering Key Lacunae Explicitly.
TAMPON Timely Absorbs Menstrual Periodic Outflow Neatly.
TEACH Train, Educate And Cultivate Harmony.
TEAR Through Erratic Action Rip.
TEMPT Tantalize, Entice, Making Promises Trap.
TEMPTATION The Ever Mesmeric Ploy That Attempts To Incite Outrageous Notions.
The Ever Mesmeric Ploy Targeting Actions Thought Immoral Or Nefarious.
TEST Try Evaluating System Technically.
THEOREM Testifies Hypothesis Explicitly Offering Round (complete) Explanation Mathematically.
TIP Tender Information Perfidiously.
TIRADE Taunting, Indecent, Remarks Almost Delivered Exasperatingly.
TOLERANCE Though Offended Literally Excuse Rudeness And No Chiding Either.
TOPS Truly Outstanding, Performance Superlative.
TORNADO Twirling Outlandishly (Bizarre, Grotesque), Rains Noisily, Abruptly, Destruction
Overland.
TRADITION Time-honoured Religious And Dynastic Instructions, Teachings Implemented, Observed
Nostalgically.
TRAMP Thrives Receiving Alms Moving Perpetually.
TRANSFER Timely Relocate At New Station For Exigent Reasons. (Effective Results.)
TRANSMIT Through Relay Arrangement Non-verbally Send Messages In Toto.
TREASURE Things Really Exotic, Accumulated Souvenirs, Undeniably Rare, Exceptional.
TREMOR Temperate, Run-of-the-mill, Earthquake, Mild Oscillations Result.
TRESPASS Though 'Restricted Entry' Sign Press Ahead Seeking Surreptitiously.
TRIAL Test Run, Identifies All Lacunae.
TRUTH Turbulent Rumbling Undercurrent That Haunts.
TYPOGRAPHY Translates Your Printing Options. Guide Representing Artistic Presentation, Helps You.
UNDER-STAND Upturn New Data, Explanations, Review Suitably Thence Absorb Neatly Details.
USURP Uproot, Seize Unlawfully, Ruthlessly, Power.
VAGUE Very Adumbrate Generalized, Unclear Expression.
VAMP Vivacious, Alluring Madame, Permissive (Purposive).
VIE Valiantly, Intelligently Engage.
VIOLATE Venture Illegally, Operating Loosely Act Treacherously, Evil-mindedly.
VIOLENCE Viciously Inflicted Onslaught, Leaves Everyone Nearly Criminally Entangled.
VIVID Veritably It's Very Intense, Distinctive.
VOMITS Violently Offloads Meals Inside The Stomach.
VOTER Voicing Opinion Through Electoral Route.
WAITER Watchful Attendant, Intently Tends Every Requirement.
WHY Willy-nilly Haunts You.
WISDOM What Instinctively Seems Desirable Or Meritorious.
WOMAN* World's Ovulation Machinery, Exquisite Nursemaid.
WRAP Whirl, Roll-up And Pack.
YOBBISH Youngster Overtly Boisterous Busybody, Indeed Shrewd Hooligan.
YORE Years Of Remote Era.

CAN you believe it?
Doctors flourish on Poor Health
Gardeners grow on Plants
Tailors make money Cutting Clothes
Priests rely on Blind Faith
Butchers depend on Slaughter
Plumbers capitalize on Leaks
Policemen shoot up on Criminals
Electricians climb up on Poles
Palmists live off Lines
Chemists lean on Drugs
Firemen warm up on Fires
Lawyers bank on Litigation
Bureaucrats get along on Rules
Grave-diggers prosper on our dead bodies.

BENDING?
The exercise most frequently performed by human beings.
We bend over backwards for some people. We bend low fawning over others. We never miss a bender (a drinking spree); teachers give us benders; we periodically bend to pick up the shattered pieces of our lives; we bend double with pain; we bend low with care; we bend to touch our toes in vain attempt to stave off middle-age spread. In fact we are now beginning to stoop to any lengths. And I am beginning to wonder why our forefathers ever bothered to stand up in the first place.

THE CARDS IN THE GAME OF LIFE.
The cards in the game of life are given to us all. We do not select them. We may not like the way they have been shuffled and dealt with - but we like to play the game and so want to play. According to some these cards traced to our past ‘Karma’ - be it true or not - we can call as we please, lead what suit we will and we gain or lose according to how we play our cards.

More of Deft Definitions
Mother is the caretaker of all our domestic needs
Father is the undertaker of all our financial needs
Abortion is just love’s labour lost
Baby is a rivet in the bonds of matrimony
Conceit is a “I” strain that doctors can’t cure
Wit is just quick conception and an easy delivery
Pathology is the science of a disease called “inquiries”
Psychologist is a person who observes us when we are looking at girls in the swimming pool
Psychiatrist is a man who pockets your money for dismantling your dreams
Flirtation is giving attention without intention.

Time we again talked of LOVE
Love is sharing all the wonderful things of life with someone you care about. By caring for each other your lives get forever intertwined. By sharing your hopes, your thoughts, your dreams, your lives will flourish as never before. Working with each other to build your lives together you strengthen your love. Love as it tightens its grip offers the best in life with that person at its center. Your love having brought you closer together will create a HOME you will be proud of.
That Home will still express your individuality and yet your love for one another will make that Home an abode for Peace, rich in Happiness and filled with Love for all.

Some thought provoking, even controversial, ideas – your comments specifically required.
SEEDS and TREES
SEEDS and TREES
Action is the seed of a tree called Results - one has to work hard for its growth.
Adventure is the seed of a tree called Fun and needs good company to mature.
Ambition is the seed of a tree called Frustration, if unsupported by manure comprising of
intelligence, hard work and knowledge.
Challenge is the seed of a tree called Opportunity, it’s flowers wither away very fast.
Co-incidence is the seed of a tree called Superstition, which seldom grows on rocky ground.
Contentment is the seed of a tree called Happiness, is hard to cultivate and needs timely and proper
nourishment.
Desire is the seed of a tree called Misery, which never fails to bear fruit.
Diet is the seed of a tree called Health which bears fruit with right hygienic conditions.
Discipline is the seed of a tree called Behaviour which is long lasting and has a wide spread.
Education is the seed of a tree called Knowledge, that nurtures on diligent learning.
Ego is the seed of a tree called Individualism and derives strength from pride and stubbornness.
Emotions are the seed of a tree called Tears, they have a tendency to flow like a flooded
river.
Envy is the seed of a tree called Depression, easy to grow and expands like weeds.
Existence is the seed of a tree called Awareness and the debatable question is whether it is the
other way round.
Experience is the seed of a tree called Wisdom and fructifies if lessons are learnt in time and acted upon.
Faith (Religious) is the seed of a tree called Almighty, its branches cover the entire universe and are
supposed to govern, guide and oversee all our actions.
Failure is the seed of a tree called Sadness, nurtures on lack of patience.
Fear is the seed of a tree called Anxiety, hard to bear.
Flattery is the seed of a tree called Favours, which normally is expected to bear fruit out of
season.
Grievance is the seed of a tree called Revenge and generally is harmful to all
Greed is the seed of a tree called Grumbling and thrives on generous dose of receptive ears.
Guilt is the seed of a tree called Remorse and is painful if one gets near it.
Grit is the seed of a tree called Strength and needs stimulants from time to time.
Ignorance is the seed of a tree called Bliss, it normally gives tasty fruits but sometimes they are
very bitter.
Instinct is the seed of a tree called Dharma, is universally similar in manifestation.
Intelligence is the seed of a tree called Success and only bears fruits if labour and luck work together.
Jealousy is the seed of a tree called Sarcasm, a perennial plant.
Legislation is the seed of a tree called Justice expected to serve in all seasons.
Luck is the seed of a tree called Fate and is governed by planetary configuration.
Melody is the seed of a tree called Music which flourishes in harmonic surroundings.
Nature is the seed of a tree called Beauty that flowers with grace and charm and needs an
occasional dose of praise.
Optimism is the seed of a tree called Hope which requires perseverance and hard labour
to bear fruits.
Pessimism is the seed of a tree called Depression which thrives on misery as soil.
Practice is the seed of a tree called Habit which is indeed very hard to uproot once it takes hold.
Religion is the seed of a tree called Places of Worship - known by various names, such as Temple,
Church, Mosque etc.
Sleep is the seed of a tree called Dream, its branches provide varied and sometimes eerie
experiences.
Stress is the seed of a tree called Nervousness, difficult to get rid of once it takes root though
eventually one overcomes it.
Temptation is the seed of a tree called Sin, once it takes root, it is near impossible to uproot.
Traditions is the seed of a tree called Culture, it has a long life but time has a tendency to alter its
influence.
Truth is the seed of a tree called Honesty, Its fruits are generally very bitter.
Wisdom is the seed of a tree called Maturity which normally springs with age and lessons learnt
from guru called experience.
Yoga is the seed of a tree called Youthful Living, its branches pervade all walks of life.

Some poems for a change:
MY CHILD
To see you happy---
Laughing and joking, smiling and content,
Striving towards goals of your own.
Accomplishing what you set out to do,
Having fun with yourself and your friends,
Capable of loving and being loved,
Is what we always wished for you.
Today we thought about your
Handsome face and felt excitement for life
And your genuine happiness,
And we as parent burst with pride
As we realised our dreams for you come true
What an extraordinary
Person you have become
And as you continue to grow please
Remember how very much
WE LOVE YOU

KEEP IT UP!!!
Nothing can stop his steps who mocks
At thunder-showers and lightning fits;
The confidence with which he treads,
Can shatter rocks to bits.
Who with decision clinches life,
And walks with vision, unafraid;
His reputation waxes high,
His goal is reached – his life is made.
That heart can never reach the goal,
Which goes astray in confusion;
Only that heart can reach the goal
Which is not tangled in illusion.
It is your duty to go on
With courage trusting in His Grace;
He who has triumphed over mind
Is certain winner of the race.
Feet that are steady, firm and sure
Can make the proudest mountain bend;
The journey starts at every step,
In truth there is no journey’s end.
When driver, car and wheel
Become a trio, start to work as one;
Obstinate hurdles disappear,
Hazardous jobs are done.
He who leaves foot-prints on his life’s way,
On him high glory is bestowed;
All earth receives him reverently,
While stars to him reveal the road.
Along life’s journey – off and on
Lie obstacles of rock and ditch;
He who with courage drives the car
Reaches his goal without a hitch.

Believe it or not here are some replies we received after extending an invitation to eminent Scientists for a Ball?
Pierre and Madame Curie were radiating enthusiasm. Einstein thought it would be relatively easy to participate in. Volta was electrified and Archimedes buoyant at the thought. Ampere was worried he wasn’t up in his current research and may not be able to spare time. Ohm resisted the idea at first. Boyle said he was too much under pressure. Edison thought it would an illuminating experience. Watt reckoned it would be a good way to let off steam. Stephenson reacted saying that the whole idea was loco. Wilbur Wright accepted with the proviso that he and Orville could get a flight. Dr. Jekyll declined – he hadn’t been feeling himself lately. Morse’s reply? I’ll be there on the dot, can’t stop now – must dash. Graham Bell said he is undecided yet, will give a ring later. Newton was apprehensive that the whole idea will fall down. Ramanujan, the mathematician from India, said the time of 6 p.m. if converted into minutes is a very interesting number. 360 is divisible by 2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,15, 18,20,24,30,36,40,45,60,90,120 and 180. Also if 5 is added to 360 we have 10^2+11^2+12^2 = 13^2+14^2 = 365 which is the number of days in a normal year. Milton Reynolds reply was illegible; his ballpoint pen ink must have dried up. Mrs. Rice heart was keen to come provided there was to be a competition, she was confident of being named the aviation queen. Werner Heisenberg harped on uncertainty principle associated with his entire programme. Dr. Alexander Lippisch was sure that even if he is held up at his prior engagement place he would be able to reach at supersonic speed. Martin Cooper requested that he may please reminded on his cell phone just half-an-hour before the party is due.
Elisa Otis expressed pleasure and said he would certainly come if his elevator does not cause a hold-up.
Sholes ChristopherLathem and Gliddon Joseph Farwell acknowledging with thanks sent a beautifully typed letter of consent.

You may disagree if you like!
Though man has language as a patent means of expression and he has the intellect also to argue his case and to convince others, yet man ultimately uses the ways of the animal who do not have language and reason to as their means to seek justice. So the lesson I learn from history is that man does not learn LESSONS FROM HISTORY.

Going into SILENCE enables you to manage your thoughts better. You will find there is no need to worry. Most of the answers you are looking for will come to you without too much effort on your part.
When you are shown DISREGARD, check yourself. If you’ve done nothing wrong, your conscience is clear and your attitude is well-meaning, understand that the situation is a test of your ability to remain beyond the judgement of others.

And here are some questions for you to ponder – no prizes for correct answers – but if you want answers get in touch!
1. How come we deliver a shipment in a car and cargo in a ship?
2. Shakespeare said “ The whole world is a stage”. Then where is the audience?
3. Have you heard of a thief who turned into successful actor? (He stole the show.)
4. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister?
5. Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called the rush hour?
6. If money does not grow on trees how is that Banks have so many Branches?
7. Who do experts turn for advice?

I now present you some words ending in ‘ance’.
DANCE Appreciate it CHANCE Needs grabbing.
PRANCE Avoid it STANCE Sensibly take it
TRANCE Be cautious FINANCE Utilize profitably
ADVANCE Carefully PENANCE Take it seriously
ROMANCE Be serious DEFIANCE Think soberly
INSTANCE Examine implications NUISANCE Check it
RELIANCE Don’t overdo it RIDDANCE Indulge judiciously
DALLIANCE Overcome it FRAGRANCE Enjoy it
BRILLIANCE Acknowledge it TOLERANCE Cultivate it
IGNORANCE Do away with COMPLIANCE Study the order first
UTTERANCE Let wisdom guide thee CONNIVANCE Desist from it IMPORTANCE Judge properly EXUBERANCE Filter it
REPENTANCE Show with earnestness MALFEASANCE Resist it
SURVELLANCE Be attentive ACQUAINTANCE Be on your guard EXTRAVAGANCE Shun it PERSEVERANCE Cultivate it

More on magic squares
Magic Squares In India,
The order 4 magic square, with magic sum of 34, shown below on the r.h.s is over 2000 years old and comes from India, while the square on the l.h.s.is the Jaina square of Khujaraho, also from India :-
07 12 01 14 01 14 15 04
02 13 08 11 12 07 06 09
16 03 10 05 08 11 10 05
09 06 15 04 13 02 03 16

The Indian square has some interesting properties:-
1. All the four 2x2 corners and the central 2x2 square also total 34.
2. In each row one pair adds to 19 and the other to 15. In each column also one pair adds to 13 and the other to 21.
3. The squares of the numbers in the first and fourth rows are equal, as also in the second and third rows.
1^2 + 14^2 + 15^2 +4^2 = 13^2 + 2^2 + 3^2 + 16^2 = 438
12^2 + 7^2 + 6^2 + 9^2 = 8^2 + 11^2 + 10^2 + 5^2 = 310
4. Similarly the squares of the numbers in the first and fourth columns are equal, as also, in the second and third columns.
1^2 + 12^2 + 8^2 + 13^2 = 4^2 + 9^2 + 5^2 +16^2 =378
14^2 +7^2 + 11^2 + 2^2 = 15^2 + 6^2 +10^2 + 3^2 =370
Now consider the diagonals of the 2x2 squares
12 +14 +3 + 5 = 15 + 9 +8 +2 = 34 further
12^2 +14^2 + 3^2 + 5^2 =15^2 + 9^2 + 8^2 +2^2 = 374 and
12^3 +14^3 +3^3 + 5^3 = 15^3 + 9^3 + 8^3 +2^3 =4624
Similar properties are found for the Jaina square:-
1 All the four 2x2 corners and the central 2x2 square total 34.
2 In each row one pair adds to 19 and the other to 15. In each column one pair adds to 9 and the other to 25.
3 7^2+12^2+1^2+14^2 = 16^2+3^2+10^2+5^2 =390
2^2+13^2+8^2+11^2 = 9^2+ 6^2+15^2+4^2 =358
4 7^2+2^2+16^2+9^2 = 1^2+8^2+10^2+15^2 =390
12^2+13^2+3^2+6^2 = 14^2+11^2+5^2+4^2 =358
Magic Squares were constructed in India before the Christian era.
You will have to wait to know more about magic squares.

As a lover, I wonder, if you have ever thought of Good-Night this way?
Good-night! Ah! no, the hour is ill,
Which severs those it should unite;
Let us remain together still,
Then it will be good night.
How can I call the lone night good!
Though thy wishes wing its flight,
Be it not said, thought or understood,
Then it will be ‘good’ night.
To hearts which near each other move,
From evening close to morning light,
The night is good; because my love,
They never say GOOD-NIGHT.
I THINK YOU WILL AGREE WITH THIS!

See if you can help me by adding to, these common excuses, we are so fond of giving.
I meant well.
I will start afresh.
It just slipped my mind.
I can give it up anytime.
I will attend to it tomorrow.
This time I could not help it.
Just give me one more chance please.
I am sorry it will not happen again.
It just happened that luck didn’t favour me.

The VOWELS – here are some words in which the five vowels occur once and once only and in their proper order and reverse order.
Abstemious; Abstentious: Arsenious: Caesious: Facetious, Abstemious;
Uncomplimentary: Sub-continental: Duo-literal: Quodlibetal:

How many words are there ending in ‘ceed’
I have got Proceed, Exceed, Succeed.
Help me in adding to these lists.

Here are some mutually exclusive words.
Calculated risk. Stifled cry. Loud whisper. Crowded space. Empty threats.

Business magnates and entrepreneurs meet:
A week before the dawn of the new year at Agra, a representative gathering of Tradesmen and Professionals from different walks of life discussed the state of their business enterprises. Extracts from their discussions collected by our reporter are given below:
It is just going down wailed the Miner.
Mine is just flowering beamed the Florist.
I am still hammering out a solution to my difficulties mumbled the Blacksmith.
Things are opening up said the locksmith.
Ours is child’s play declared the Toy-maker.
My business is dyeing said the Dyer.
Mine is all dusty murmured the Vacuum-cleaner representative.
Mine needs relocating was the point made out by Real Estate dealer.
Ours is just building up commented the Real Estate builder.
The honest Share-broker was not ready to comment anything, when pressed said ‘it is all profit’ whichever way you people meddle.
Mine is very risky bemoaned the Insurance Agent.
My profits are in tune sang the Musical-instruments shop-owner.
It is all a gamble said the Casino-owner grinning all the way.
I am well covered, trust me in my business responded the Banker.
Litigation continue to pile up was the candid comment of the Lawyers representative.
Mine is a trying experience wisely put in the Jurist.
Our results are beyond my expectations exclaimed the Principal of a Government school.
Mine is looking better said the Beautician.
I am being frequently bowled out cried the Cricketer.
I seldom achieve my goal said the Football-player.
I wish I could successfully avoid all the traps set for me said the Chess-player.
Mine is glamorous demonstrated the Actress.
Mine is balancing confidently said the Trapeze Artist.
The performance is getting more and more trickier grumbled the magician.
I am still struggling to make it to the top said the Wrestler.
I am holding my own was all the Weight-lifter was prepared to say.
Could I only swim out of my troubles, I would be a success said the long-distance Swimmer.
Mine is alarming simply put in the Clock-repairer.
Mine is stationary muttered the Paper Merchant.
Mine is just clicking rued the Photographer.
Mine is simply burning out said the Fireman bravely.
Mine is all ‘washed out’ was the bitter reply from the Laundry-man.
Mine is in ‘flames’ warned the Welder good humourously.
Mine is building up said the Mason joyfully.
I am being laughed at all the time barked the Joker.
People still have full faith in my predictions was the exuberant comment of the local Astrologer.
My business is picking up smilingly declared the Taxi-driver.
Mine requires spoon-feeding gratefully acknowledged the Hotelier.
The dough is rolling in the Baker was all smiles saying it.
Students flock to my classes learning and enjoying my savoury dishes claimed the Tasty-Bite proprietor.
Mine is soaring promptly responded the pilot of a private plane.
My business is looking up said the Astronomer quietly.
Mine is only show-business grinned the Film producer.
Mine is going up in smoke complained the Cigarette manufacturer.
Mine is ‘all write’ chuckled the Author.
I wish I could ‘solve all my problems’ was all the Scientist was prepared to say.
Mine is just sew-sew (so-so) remarked the Tailor.
Mine is ‘growing’ boasted the Farmer.
It is all fault finding grumbled the Electrician.
My business is cooling down in spite of things getting hot elsewhere mumbled the Fridge salesman.
Mine is extremely noisy said the Fireworks chap.
Mine is fishy was the pungent comment of the Fisherman.
Mine is healthy retorted the Fruit merchant.
Mine is drugging(dragging) deplored the Chemist.
Mine is improving was the confident assertion of the Physician.
Mine is ‘looking better’ clearly pointed the Optician.
I started from scratch ruefully said the Dermatologist.
Mine is in plaster said the Orthopaedician.
It requires a lot of mental balancing pitched in the Mental Hospital warden.
Mine is roaring loudly said the Auto-mechanic.
Mine is still very colourful pointed out the Painter.
Mine is going down the drain said the Sweeper.
Mine is just shining was the assertion by Shoe-shine-boy.
Mine is picking up joyously said the Rag picker.
People are getting very stingy bemoaned the Beggars leader.
Mine is crumbling said the ‘Demolishing squad leader’.
We are still trying to cope with the unruly traffic in the city said the Traffic Inspector.
When you make a mountain of a mole-hill don’t expect anyone to climb it!

This is what Late Raja Ram Mohan Roy had rightly said decades earlier:
Women are, in general, inferior to men in bodily strength and energy. Consequently the male part of the community, taking advantage of their corporal ‘weakness’, have denied them those excellent merits that they are entitled to by nature, and afterwards they are apt to say that women are naturally incapable of acquiring those merits.
When did you provide them a fair opportunity of exhibiting their natural capabilities? If, after instruction in knowledge and wisdom, a person cannot comprehend or retain what has been taught, we may consider him as deficient; but as you keep women generally void of education and acquirements, you cannot, therefore, in justice, pronounce on their infirmity.

Violence in Our day to day English
Have you ever wondered how many violent words we use in everyday use? Why do we use such words:
Execute a will. Beat the drums. Sink our differences. Smother a sneeze.
Strangle a laugh. Steal a glance. Assault our eardrums. Kill an urge.
Burn our boats. Bite our tongue. Nail a lie. Tie the boat.
Drown our sorrows. Hang our dress Shoot a photograph. Try our luck.
Hit the ball. Burn the candle. Skin the vegetables. Bury the hatchet.
Be dead on time. Whip the cream. Blow the nose. Blast the furnace.
Murder democracy. Cut the slices.
This is but a sample, examine critically the language you use and you will be in for a surprise? Yes I would
like to share your findings.

Here is a very interesting tale, though you may not believe it but I am sure you would have experienced it too:
Mismanagement Process
A story is told about 4 people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it. But Nobody realized that Everybody would not do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
How management in a missionary institution is so different from others?
There, Nobody is irresponsible. Everybody would give the best. Somebody even excels. Anybody does the
job willingly with a spirit of devotion to duty.
Interesting tale isn’t it?

And now “ The Law of Utilizing Incompetence”
A. Those who can – do.
B. Those who cannot – advise.
C. Those who cannot do even that – teach.
D. Those who cannot do even that – teach teachers to teach.
E. Those who cannot do even that – administer
F. Those who cannot do even that – join politics.

THE HUMAN BODY
Let us talk about our own body today (and match our views):
The human body is a self-nourishing, self-regulating, self-repairing, self-starting and self-reproducing machine installed at birth and lasting for a good three-quarters of a century, like a good grand-father’s clock, requiring very little attention.
It is a machine. A machine provided with wireless vision and wireless hearing with a much more complicated system of nerves and lymphs than the most complicated telephone and telegraph system of the world. It has a system of filing reports done by a vast complexes of nerves, managed with such efficiency that some files, the less important ones are kept in the attic and the others are kept in a more convenient desk, but those kept in the attic, which may be more than 30 years old and rarely referred to are nevertheless there and found with lightning speed and efficiency. Perhaps the system is much faster and efficient than the fastest and latest of the present day computers. In computer terminology the memory capacity of the human brain is 10 trillion bytes or 100 times bigger than one gigabyte disc.
It also manages to go about like a motor-car with a perfect knee-action and absolute silence of engines and if the motor car has an accident and breaks its glass or its steering wheel, the car automatically exudes or manufactures a substance to replace the glass and does its best to grow a steering shaft, for we must remember that when one of our kidney gives way, the other swells and increases its functions to ensure the passage of the normal volume of urine. Then it also keeps up a normal temperature within a tenth of a Fahrenheit degree and manufactures its own chemicals for the purpose of transforming food into living tissue.
Above all, it has a sense of rhythm of life and a sense of time, not only of hours and days, but also of decades; the body regulates its own childhood, puberty and maturity, stops growing when it should no longer grow and brings forth a wisdom tooth at a time when no one of us even thought of it. Our conscious wisdom has nothing to do with our wisdom tooth.
It also manufactures specific anti-dotes against poison on the whole with amazing success and it does all those things with absolute silence without the usual racket of a factory, so that our superfine meta-physician may not be disturbed and is free to think about his spirit or essence.
It relies on a very cheap and abundantly available source of material for survival. Ventilation takes place to maintain a constant flow of fresh air, around 16 times a minute. It has a network of pipelines, stretching over 40 miles to transfer oxygen poor blood from all body tissues to a muscular pump, the best in the world, which purifies it and sends oxygen rich blood to all tissues to maintain their strength and vitality. The pump works uninterrupted, between 60 to 80 times a minute, to keep life flowing. The body has around 600 trillion tiny air bags in the lungs. The surface area they provide for oxygen and carbon-dioxide is equivalent to that of a tennis court.
It has a defense system that seeks out and engulfs any invading bacteria or viruses or disease causing organisms. It also has a mechanism which protects it from physical injuries by releasing chemicals which enable blood to clot and thus prevent blood outflow.
It has storm-troopers who carry carbon dioxide from tissues to the lungs where it is exuded. It has garbage clearance apparatus which carry metabolic wastes from its factory to the kidneys which help to excrete it as urine and digested food is also transferred to this factory for processing and passing onward to the body cells as nourishment and waste product is routinely thrown out.
And marvel of marvels, the genetic engineering ensures that all organs and body features are identical in all human beings, except in very rare cases, and yet no two faces or body structure are identical in all respects, irrespective of which part of the world we look for them.

Let us talk of about an age-old mystery-------
The mystery of life lies in realizing the purpose of our existence. Are we mere drifters on the sands of time? We begin our life with a stage when we are absolutely dependent on others for everything, we have no control over our actions. Slowly and slowly we learn things, learn them in the way they are taught to us by others, for some time whatever is taught to us, as far as we are concerned, is the gospel truth. This stage again soon passes away, our intelligence takes a hand. We try to reason out things and form and test our own ideas. Somewhere at this stage a thought strikes that there must be a goal which we have to strive for! The search begins, we start with short term goals and choose and discard, and the mystery remains.
It indeed is a great moment, if it ever comes, when we see, however distant the ultimate goal of our wandering. The mirage of our imagination then suddenly becomes a part of our tangible world. It matters not how many rangers, rivers or parching dusty ways lie in between! It is ours now – forever. We achieve it or not is immaterial. The mystery is solved and peace, real mental peace, descends.

More on Magic Squares.

Magic Squares------ How Many Solutions.
3x3 Squares.
There is a unique solution for a 3x3 square. Let us examine why?
Let us write all combinations of 3 numbers from 1 to 9 that add up to 15 They are 1,5,9: 1,6,8: 2,4,9: 2,5,8: 2,6,7: 3,4,8: 3,5,7: and 4,5,6. Now the central number of the square can only be that number which occurs in at least 4 combinations. The only number that satisfies this condition is 5. So only 5 can occupy the center space. Next examine 1, it combines with only 9 and 8 and as such cannot occupy corner space, so must come in the middle of a row or column. So we can place 1 and 9, and 8 immediately. Rest all the numbers then automatically fall in place.
4x4 Squares.
There are only 880 solutions for a 4x4 square, first given by Bernard Frenicle de Bassy in 1693.
5x5 Squares.
There are a staggering number of solutions for a 5x5 square----68,826,306 not counting reflections and rotations. This counting was arrived at by Richard Schroeppel, a mathematician and computer programmer at Information International, who used a standard backtracking procedure consisting of about 3500 lines and took 100 hours on a PDP-10. A final report was written by Michael Beeper and was issued in October 1975. For interested readers there is one classification by central numbers 1 through 13 (same numbers for 25 to 13) given below:-
1 1,091,448. 2 1,366,179. 3 1,914,984. 4 1,958,837. 5 2,431,806.
6 2,600,879. 7 3,016,881. 8 3,112,161. 9 3,472,540. 10 3,344,034.
11 3,933,818. 12 3,784,618. 13 4,769,936

Higher Order Squares.
While no firm estimate is available for a 6x6 square, suffice it to say that, the number would run into billions. To imagine the number of solutions, simply increase all numbers in the 4x4 square by 10 to give a new 4x4 square consisting of numbers 11 to 26 with total of 34 + 40 = 74, this 4x4 square forms the inner core of the 6x6 square. Now we have to use numbers from 1 to 10 and 27 to 36 to form its boundary. Arrange these in pairs to total 37. Let us only consider one such combination of numbers arranged to give the required total of 111, see figure below formed with the Jaina square for the core 4x4 square :-
01 34 05 07 35 29
33 17 22 11 24 04
31 12 23 18 21 06
28 26 13 20 15 09
10 19 16 25 14 27
08 03 32 30 02 36
Now any pair of numbers in the first and last row or the extreme left and extreme right column, excluding the corner numbers since they total 37, can be interchanged. This interchange can create 4!x4! = 576 new squares. Since there are 880 squares of order 4 which can be used for the inner core, and, further these squares can be rotated, we have, for one set of border 576x4x880 = 2,027,520 solutions. Further, in this arrangement of border numbers, if we interchange 34 & 7 from top row and corresponding pair numbers 3 & 30 from the bottom row with 31 & 10 from the left column and the corresponding pair numbers 6 & 27 from the right column, we get another set of 2,027,520 squares. But this is not all. Besides the fact that other border squares can be formed, there are other methods of construction. For example, if we reduce all odd numbers by 1 and increase all even numbers by 1 in the core 4x4 square, we get a new square which has numbers from 10 to 27, excluding 11 and 26, still with a total of 74. (This can be done for 712 squares of order 4, as this process cannot be adopted for those squares which have only odd and even numbers in their diagonals). Thus for any border combination for these squares we shall have 576x4x712 = 1,640,448 solutions.
This method of generating squares from lower order squares, described later in detail, can be applied to generate squares of any order, and, as such, the number of squares that can be constructed can only be imagined. Besides this method, there are other methods which, again, can result in a large number of solutions.
Methods Of Construction.
We will now discuss, in greater detail, methods of construction of squares of different orders.
Border Square Method.
There is no universal method of construction of magic squares ab-initio. However, once a 3x3 square (which has only one solution) and a 4x4 square, have been constructed, the border square method, illustrated earlier for the 6x6 square, can be considered as universally applicable. In general, an order “n” square can be constructed from an order “n-2” square by the following method:-
To every number in the order n-2 square add 2n-2; the numbers that have not yet been used will be 1,2,3,....2n-2, and n^2, n^2-1, n^2-2,.....n^2-2n+3,
( these numbers are complementary numbers , in the sense that pairs of them total n^2+1). These numbers are to be placed in the 4(n-1) border cells such that the complementary numbers occur at the end of the 2 diagonals, columns and the rows of the inner square; however, the choice of the numbers for the top row and one of the columns is to be so made that the total comes to n(n^2+1)/2, the other row and column will automatically give the required total. This selection of numbers is best done by trial and error method. So long as precaution is taken not to use complementary numbers in the top row and the selected column this should not pose any problem. This method is attributed to Frenicle.
Let us try this for the 5x5 square from the 3x3 square. The order 3 square is :-
4 3 8
9 5 1
2 7 6
In this square we have to increase the numbers in each cell by
2n-1 i.e. 2(5-1) = 8.we thus get:-
The border square is to be formed with numbers from 1 to 18 and 18 to 25. This is easily done, one solution being:
12 11 16
17 13 09
10 15 14
Take 18 20 21 4 2 for the top row and 18 1 3 19 24 for the left-hand column.
So the final square is :_
18 20 22 04 02
01 12 11 16 25
03 17 13 09 23
19 10 15 14 07
24 06 05 22 08
We have already seen construction of 6x6 square by this method earlier.
Incidentally for this square we have:-
18^2 + 1^2 + 3^2 + 19^2 + 24^2 = 2^2 + 25^2 + 23^2 + 7^2 + 8^2 and
18^2 + 20^2 + 21^2 + 4^2 + 2^2 =24^2 + 6^2 + 5^2 + 22^2 + 8^2.
The Hindu Rule.
For odd order squares we have a special rule, called the HINDU RULE. The Hindu rule may be enunciated as follows:-
To start with write the first number 1 in the center of the topmost row, next write 2 in the lowest space of the vertical column next adjacent to the right, and then so inscribe the remaining numbers in their natural order in the squares diagonally upwards towards the right that, on reaching the right-hand margin, the inscription shall be continued from the left-hand margin in the row just above, and again, on reaching the upper margin, shall be continued from the lower margin in the column next adjacent to the right, noting that whenever we are arrested in our progress by a square already occupied we are to fill out the square next beneath the one we have filled. In this manner, for example, the 7x7 square given below has been formed:-
30 39 48 01 10 19 28
38 47 07 09 18 27 29
46 06 08 17 26 35 37
05 14 16 25 34 36 45
13 15 24 33 42 44 04
21 23 32 41 43 03 12
22 31 40 49 02 11 20
This method is neat and quick. De La Loubere, Envoy of Louis X1V to Siam learnt of this method here.
This square may also be represented as under to give multiple solutions:
Cf Be Ad Gc Fb Ea Dg
Bd Ac Gb Fa Eg Df Ce
Ab Ga Fg Ef De Cd Bc
Gg Ff Ee Dd Cc Bb Aa
Fe Ed Dc Cb Ba Ag Gf
Ec Db Ca Bg Af Ge Fd
Da Cg Bf Ae Gd Fc Eb
Giving A’s one of the values—0,7,14,21,28,35,42, and a’s one of the values—1,2,3,4,5,6,7 we are able to cover all numbers from 1 to 49 and get the magic sum of 175. It gives 7!x6!/4 clear solutions.
And now let us have a look at the 5x5 square by the Hindu Rule.:-
09 03 22 16 15
02 21 20 14 08
25 19 13 07 01
18 12 06 05 24
11 10 04 23 17
and note that:-
9^2 + 2^2 + 25^2 + 18^2 + 11^2 = 15^2 + 8^2 + 1^2 + 24^2 + 17^2 = 1155
3^2 + 21^2 + 19^2 + 12^2 + 10^2 = 16^2 + 14^2 + 7^2 + 5^2 + 23^2 =
9^2 + 3^2 + 22^2 + 16^2 +15^2 = 11^2 + 10^2 + 4^2 + 23^2 + 17^2 = 1055 And
2^2 + 21^2 + 20^2 + 14^2 + 8^2 = 18^2 + 12^2 + 6^2 + 5^2 + 24^2 =
22^2 + 20^2 + 13^2 + 6^2 + 4^2 =1105.

And now some interesting 4 - liners:

FLOWERS
The sweetest flower that blows,
I give you as we part,
For you it is a rose –
For me it is my heart!

FRIENDSHIP
And what is friendship but a name,
A charm that lulls to sleep,
A shade that follows wealth and fame,
And leaves the wretch to weep!

GHOST
The other day - upon the stair
I saw a man who wasn’t there,
He wasn’t there again today,
I wish to God he would go away!

LIFE’S JOURNEY
Along life’s journey – off and on
Lie obstacles of rock and ditch;
He who with courage drives the car,
Reaches his goal without a hitch.

LITTLE CAR
Mary had a little car,
She drove in a manner deft,
And every time she signaled left,
The little car went right.

MY DEAR
Hush my dear, lie still and slumber!
Holy Angels guard thy bed!
Heavenly blessings without number,
Gently falling on thy HEAD!

MY HEART
Not with madness but with sadness,
My heart it’s cruel lesson learns.
Not with sadness but with madness,
My heart the art of LOVE learns

MY MOTHER
Who ran to help me when I fell,
Or would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother, my mother, my dear mother!

MY REGRETS
Among life’s dying embers,
These are my regrets;
When I am right no one remembers,
When I am wrong, no one forgets!

NEVER
Never wound hearts that love you,
Never cause endless pain,
For hearts once ruined, like roses,
NEVER BLOOM AGAIN.

OLD DEBTS
You are forgotten as old debts,
By persons who are used to borrow,
Forgotten as the sun that sets,
When shine a new one on the morrow!

OUR HOPES
Our very hopes belied our fears,
Our fears our hopes belied.
We thought her dying when she slept,
And sleeping when she died.

OUR LOVE SHALL GUARD
No care or grief shall wave
It’s cold and blighting pinions o’er you,
For our love shall guard thy spirits hope
Till heavens blessings dawn before you!

PERSON WORTHWHILE
‘Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the person worth-while is the one who will smile
Even when everything goes dead wrong!

SELF AND SERVICE
Service first and the self-second,
Is a motto good and fine,
But let us have it well reckoned,
The self is yours and never mine.

SO MANY CREEDS
So many God’s; so many creeds;
So many paths that wind and wind,
While all the sad world needs,
Is just the art of being a little kind!

SOME HOPE THAT’S DEAD
There’s not a garden walk I tread,
There’s not a flower, I see, Love,
But brings to mind some hope, that’s dead,
Some joy I’ve had with thee.

THE MORE YOIU FORGET
The more you learn the more you forget,
The more you forget the less you know;
The less you know the less you forget,
The less you forget the more you know!

TIRED
To stop before you’re tired
The experts say is smart,
So that quite nicely lets me out,
I’m tired before I start!

TROUBLE
Better never trouble ‘TROUBLE’
Until trouble troubles you,
For you only make your trouble,
Double-trouble, when you do!

TWO FAULTS
Men have many faults,
Dear women have but two,
They never think, that is right,
They never wrong what they do!

WEEP ON
Weep on – perhaps in after days,
They will learn to love your name,
And many a deed may wake in praise.
That long hath slept in blame.

WISE OLD BIRD
A wise old bird sat on an oak.
The more he heard, the less he spoke;
The less he spoke, the more he heard;
Let us not laugh at this wise old bird.

WORDS
I’m careful of the words I say
To keep them soft and sweet;
For I know not from day to day
Which one’s I’ll have to eat.

WORRYING
What’s the use of worrying?
It never was worthwhile,
So pack up your troubles in your old kit bag,
And smile, smile and SMILE!

WORLD
The world we are living in is
Is mighty hard to beat.
You get a thorn with every rose,
But aren’t the roses sweet?

WISDOM WAYS
If wisdom ways you wisely seek,
Observe five things with care;
Of whom you speak, with whom you speak,
And how and why and where!

More of wisdom – in one liners?
A dignified silence is the only weapon to use against vulgar persons!
A fanatic is one who refuses to alter his mind and will not change the subject!
A life is for a generation, a good name is forever!
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles on the road!
A man likes to feel he is loved, a woman likes to be told!
A man may fail many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame someone else?
A praise is as good as the person who tenders it!
A sure way to stop a red-hot argument is to reel out a few cold facts!
A tree will not only lie as it falls, but it will also fall as it leans!
An idler is like a clock that lacks both hands!
Apology is a courtesy that’s a bit late in arriving!
By nature men are all alike; by practice they get to be wide apart!
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth!
Chance – a willing accomplice of one who is ready to venture all!
Circumstances do not make men, they discover them!
Conceit is a form of “I” strain that Doctors can’t cure!
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty!
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear!
Curiosity is the mother of Venetian Blinds?
Disappointments should be cremated and not embalmed!
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; arguments an exchange of ignorance!
Don’t stay angry. A smoldering fire makes bitter smoke!
Everybody laughs in the same language!
Experience is a good teacher but it sends in terrific bills!
Experience is a hard teacher, it gives the test first and the lesson afterwards!
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen!
Friends are not made they are recognized?
Go out in the street with an open mind, you never know what might fall into it!
Good thoughts even if they are forgotten do not perish!
I can resist anything but temptation!
If misery loves company, misery has company enough!
If the criticism is harsh, take the truth from it and forget the harshness!
If you want to leave foot-prints in the sands of time – don’t drag your feet?
Ignore safety and the problem will not disappear, you will!
Instinct – it is at the bottom of all natural things!
It also takes two to make up after a quarrel?
It is a healthy symptom when a man is dissatisfied without being discouraged!
It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong!
It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it and trustworthy as you trust it.
Keep your chin up, it helps to keep your mouth shut?
Knowing that you don’t know much is, knowing a great deal indeed!
Like fire words can burn or warm up?
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea?
Love is like a plant, it must have water. The words of love are the water for this plant!
Memory comes in three varieties – Good, Bad and convenient!
Men with clenched fists cannot shake hands!
Misery loves company but cannot bear competition?
Money and kisses are the only two things loaded with germs that remain popular through the ages!
Money is half the root of all evils; the other half is not having any?
Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% pure envy?
Never give up and good luck will definitely find you!
No person has a good enough memory to be a successful liar forever?
Not failure but low aim is a crime!
Nothing is more responsible for the good-old days than a bad memory!
One good way to control your temper is to weigh less than the other fellow?
One thorn of experience is worth a whole lot more than a wilderness of warnings!
Opportunity may only knock once, but watch out for opportunists!
Patience is an ornament to men, modesty to a woman!
People who lose their heads easily never miss them!
Problems are opportunities in work-clothes!
Progress, like memories, is a path without end!
Purity is like virginity, it has to be violated if life is to survive?
Reading makes a full man – meditation a profound man – a discourse a clear man!
Seeing ourselves as others see us wouldn’t do much good. We wouldn’t believe it anyway?
Simplicity and liberality are two qualities which beyond a certain limit, lead to ruin!
Smart husbands speak from experience. Smarter husbands, from experience, do not speak at all?
Some people are like blotters, they soak it all in but get it all, naturally, backwards?
Speak kind words and sure enough you will find an echo!
Stubborn people follow the path of least assistance!
Success is really the art of not giving up!
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
The best gift is one that is tied with your heart’s strings!
The best thing to do behind a person’s back is to pat it!
The best way to stay young is to GROW UP!
The first rule for speaking well, naturally, is to think well!
The mind, like the parachute, works best when open!
The most effective water power in the world – TEARS?
The only conquests that cause no regrets or envy are those made over ignorance?
The world is a beautiful book but what use to him who cannot read?
There’s no hardship more crippling than self-pity!
Tight shoes are the greatest blessings on earth. They make you forget all your other troubles?
To be good is noble, to teach others to be good is nobler still, and far less trouble?
Trouble is an ounce or a ton depending on how we take it?
Use logic - go wrong the sensible way?
Vice is the darkness that brings virtue to light.
Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul!
Want to see the bright side of your problems – talk to someone?
We should aim rather at levelling down our desires than at levelling up our means?
What is beautiful is not always good, but what is good is always beautiful!
When it comes to shopping, some people have no shelf-control?
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interfere!
Without doubt it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying work together!
Work banishes three great evils – boredom, vice and poverty!
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul!
You can’t depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus!
You can’t get rid of your temper by losing it?

Try your hand at completing these Bacronyms:
1. CON Confidently O...... Nefariously.
2. DEBATE Discuss Elaborately, Boldly A...., Than Evaluate.
3. DEMAND Desire Explicitly, Matter-of-fact Assert Nicely D.........
4. DEMISE Death, Eventual M....... Into Supernatural Empire.
5. DENTURE Duplicates Eventually N.......Teeth Using Replicas Efficiently.
6. EFFACE Erase Fully F....And Cleanse Entirely.
7. EMERGE Enter, M.....Expectedly, R...... , Get Exposed.
8. FACET F.......Aspect, Concisely Expressed Theory.
9. FAMINE Fatal A.......Monsoons Influencing Nations E........
10. FIT Fully Informed, T.......
11. GAG G.......Against Groans.
12. GRADE G......R......And Decide Eligibility.
13. GRAVE Ground R.........After Veritable End.
14. HYPOTHESIS Helps You – Properly Outline T, Highlight Essential S, Inject
Simplicity.
15. JAIL J.......... Authorized I....... Location.

[My choices 12 Give Rating. 2. Argue. 8. Feature. 14. Theory, Steps. 1. Outwit. 15.Judicially, Internment. 3. Dictating. 13. Retained. 4. Movement. 11. Guard. 5. Natural.
10.Trained. 6. Features. 9. Adverse, Economy. 7. Move, Reveal]

PERPETUAL CALENDAR
Interested in knowing the day of the week in which you and your family members were born? Interested in knowing the day of the week for a remote future date?
Well I am happy to note that you are interested, now all you have to do is to look at the charts below mark the base numbers for date, month, etc., and add up and than divide the total by 7, if remainder is 0 it is Sunday, if remainder is 1 it is Monday, 2 –Wednesday etc.,
Please however note that our present calendar came into force from 13.9.1752, so dates and day will tally only for subsequent dates, if there is any past record or calendar.
Please also note that for my purpose century counts from 1stJanuary of year 1 to 31st December of year 100.
For example 20th century is from 1.1.1901 to 31.12.2000.
We will be dividing the century by 4 and are concerned only with the remainder after the division.
Base Number 0
Dates 07,14,21,28.
Months April, July.
Years 01,07,18,24,29,35,46,52,57,63,74,80,85,91.
Century Remainder 0

Base Number 1
Dates 01,08,15,22,29.
Months January, October.
Years 02,08,13,19,30,36,41,47,58,64,69,75,86,92,97.
Leap year Only if months are from March To December.

Base Number 2
Dates 02,09,16,23,30.
Months May.
Years 03,14,20,25,31,42,48,53,59,70,76,81,87,98.
Century Remainder 3

Base Number 3
Dates 03,10,17,24,31.
Months August
Years 04,09,15,26,32,37,43,54,60,65,71,82,88,93,99.

Base Number 4
Dates 04,11,18,25.
Months February, March, November.
Years 00,10,16,21,27,38,44,49,55,66,72,77,83,94.
Century Remainder 2

Base Number 5
Dates 05,12,19,26.
Months June.
Years 05,11,22,28,33,39,50,56,61,67,78,84,89,95.

Base Number 6
Dates 06,13,20,27.
Months September, December.
Years 06,12,17,23,34,40,45,51,62,68,73,79,90,96.
Century Remainder 1

Examples: Base Number for
Date Date Month Year Century Leap Year Total Day
Remainder
01.01.2000 1 1 4 0 06 Saturday.
31.03.2000 3 4 4 0 1 12 Friday.
31.03.2001 3 4 0 6 13 Saturday.
21.11.1763 0 4 0 4 08 Monday.
01.03.1848 1 4 2 2 1 10 Wednesday.
18.11.4567 4 4 5 4 17 Wednesday.

DEFT DEFINITIONS
(Please excuse if you find some have already been given earlier)
ABNORMAL In matters of thought and conduct to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested; wherefore this lexicographer advises a striving towards a straighter resemblance to the average than hath to himself. Who so attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of hell.
ABILITY Poor man’s wealth.
ABORTION Love’s labour lost.
ABSTINENCE Surety of temperance.
ABSURDITY A statement of belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinions.
ACCENT The soul of a language; that which gives feeling, warmth and sense of truth to it.
ACQUAINTANCE Aperson whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to; Adegree of friendship calledslight when it’s object is poor or obscure and intimate whenhe is rich or famous.
ACTION Best interpreter of man’s thoughts.
Parent of results.
Cure for grief.
ACUPUNCTURE A jab well done.
ADMIRATION Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.
A short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its objects.
ADOLESCENCE Emotional see-sickness.
Age at which children start bringing up their parent’s.
ADOPTION A simple, cost effective, labour saving, emotionally satisfying path to parenthood.
ADULT A person who has stopped growing at both ends and has started growing in the middle.
ADULTERER One whose way is hedged with thorns, full of fears and jealousies, burning desires, and impatient waitings, tediousness of delays and sufferance of affronts and amazement of discovery.
ADVENTURER One who practices the art of the impossible.
ADVERSITY It has the effect of eliciting talents which in pros-perous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Appropriate balance in which to weigh friend-ship.
ADVERTISING Selling promises.
The science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Ministers to the spiritual side of the business.
ADVICE A debt which the old owe to the young.
Something which the older generation is fond of giving to console themselves for being no longer in a position to set examples.
The softer it falls, the deeper it sinks and the longer it dwells.
Too valuable a thing to be retained withoneself - pass it on!
AFFECTION A spot in the geography of the mind.
AFFECTIONS They are like lightning, you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
AFTERMATH The next lesson after mathematics.
ALCOHOL A food well in advance of medical thought.
A liquid good for preserving almost everything except secrets and etiquettes.
ALIMONY The high cost of learning that you chose a wrong partner.
It is like paying for the auto after the wreck.
The high cost of Leaving.
AMBASSADOR Honest man sent to lie abroad.
AMBITION A leaping horse which may land you in the ditch.
It has but one reward for all; a little transient fame, a grave to rest in and a fading name.
The spur that makes men struggle with destiny. It is heaven’s own incentive to make purpose great and achievement greater.
AMUSEMENT Happiness of those who cannot think.
ANARCHIST A baffled dictator.
ANATOMY Something that everyone has but it looks better on girls.
ANGER It is rarely without reason but seldom with a good one.
ANIMALS Agreeable friends who ask no questions and make no criticisms.
ANTIQUE Fabulously priced junk.
ANTIQUITIES Some remnants of history which casually escaped the shipwrecks of time.
ANXIETY Loves greatest killer.
APOLOGISE To lay the foundation of a future offense.
APOLOGY Politeness too late.
Egotism wrong side out.
Super glue of life. It can just about repair everything.
ARCHAELOGIST A specie of human beings who is most sought after husband if he is single. Every maiden is after him being convinced that the older she gets the more interested he will become in her.
ARCHITECT One who drafts plan of your house and plans a draft of your money.
ARCHITECTURE Frozen Music.
ARGUMENTS Viewpoints contrary to ours which are always vulgar and yet convincing.
ARMY A body of man assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
ARROGANCE Outgrowth of prosperity.
ART Wine of life.
Crystallization of emotion into thought.
ARTIST A person whose career always begins tomorrow.
ASS One who has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
ASTRONOMER A man whose business is looking up.
ATHEIST A man who has no invisible means of support.
ATTITUDE The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.
AUTHOR A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations.
A man whose business is all write.
AVERAGE You are as close to the bottom as to the top.
BABY A little rivet in the bonds of matrimony.
An alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
It makes love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bank accounts smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.
BACHELOR A man who never made the same mistake once.
A souvenir of some women who found a better one at the last minute.
BACK That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.
BANKER A professional man who lends you an umbrella in fair weath-er and takes it away when it rains.
BANKRUPTCY When you put your money in your hip-pocket and let your creditors take away your coat.
BARBARISM Condition of past customs.
BEAUTY Smile of God.
In the fair sex is the potent alchemy which transforms men into asses.
A soft, smooth, slippery thing and therefore of a nature which easily permeates our soul
BEHAVIOUR A mirror in which everyone displays his image.
BELIEFS Fashions of our environments.
BENDING The exercise most frequently performed whether we like it or not.
BIOGRAPHY An uncoloured profile portrait of the better side of a man’s face.
BIRTHDAYS A malady like measles from which everyone suffers.
BLESSINGS An event which is generally disguised. Most people will prefer it to be undisguised when they happen to be the beneficiary, but the theory that blessings in disguise are constantly happening they find consoling since it enables them to bear the troubles of others without feeling miserable.
BLOOD Juice of the rarest quality.
BOASTER He is like the denominator of a numeral, the bigger he tries to be the smaller in fact he becomes.
BODY Guest-chamber of soul.
That well set clock which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs before the hour.
BOLDNESS Bad in council, but good in execution.
BOOKS Children of the brain.
Lighthouses erected in the infinite sea of time.
They are like women, the worse for being old. They have a pleasure in being read for the first time, they open their leaves more cordially, but the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty and after a certain age it is high time to put them on the shelf.
BOOKSHOPS Universities which everyone can enter.
BORE A person who talks when you want him to listen.
A man, who when you ask him how he is, tells you so in detail.
BOREDOM The most damnable of all sufferings.
BOSS One who is early when you are late, and late when you are early.
BOY A wild unmanageable beast.
BRAIN Antenna of the body. Sponge like organization of nerve endings.
BRAVERY A cheap and vulgar quality of which the brightest instances are found in the lowest savages.
BREVITY The soul of wit.
BRIDE A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
BUDGET Monthly planning for future expenses wherein, despite having incurred unexpected expenses every month, we expect to have none during the coming month.
An accounting puzzle which just refuses to work out.
BUFFET Get up and get it yourself.
BUILDING Erection of a dwelling place foundation for which must not be laid before you are 45, you must have five year’s income in hand before you lay a brick and always calculate the expense at the double the estimate.
BUREAUCRAT An official who tells you, quoting rules, why your request cannot be entertained, as opposed to an administrator who tells you how it can be done within the same rules.
BUREAUCRACY Thoroughness without thought.
BURKHA Uniform of a virtuous woman - a highly inflammable piece of property requiring careful insulation from the male gaze.
CALAMITY The perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
CALUMNY Awasp that worries you. Do not try to get rid of it unless you are sure of slaying it, for it would return to the charge more furious than ever.
CAPITAL Result of labour.
CASTLES Forests of stone.
CAT A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.
CAUSE The trigger of all events.
CAUTION The eldest child of wisdom.
CELEBRITY A person who having worked very hard till now to become well-known starts wearing dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
CENSOR A person puts his “no’s” in other peoples business.
CENSURE Tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
CHANCE A willing accomplice of the person who is ready to venture all.
That vague shadow of an infinite possibility which must be banished from the dictionary of our perceptions. It is a word by which we cover and excuse our own ignorance.
CHARACTER A diamond that scratches every other heart.
It is that sublime health which values one moment as another and makes us great in all conditions.
CHARM The best beautician.
CHARITY The milk of human kindness.
Cover for multitude of sins.
CHASTITY That part of our character which enables us to breathe pure air in the foulest places.
CHILD A specie of human beings who faces the hard problems of learning good table manners without seeing any.
CHILDHOOD A stage in the process of that continual remanufacture of the life stuff by which the human race is perpetuated.
CHILDREN They are culprits who are not allowed to behave as their parents did at their age.
CHIVALRY The urge a man has to protect a woman from everyone except himself.
It is like a drink. It’s quite a good thing in moderation, but it doesn’t pay to indulge in it too often.
CIGARETTE A paper tube filled with grass, with fire at one end a fool at the other end.
CIRCUMSTANCES Chain of events which no matter how unfortunate that clever people do not extract some advantage from and none, no matter how fortunate, that the unwise cannot turn to their disadvantage.
CIVILISATION Condition of present customs.
A series of victories over nature.
CLERK That white-collar worker who is tired even before he starts the days work.
CLEVERNESS Ignorance of things which it is not worthwhile to know.
COINCIDENCE Result of that inexorable law of averages which prevents any series of events being 100 per cent trouble free.
COMMUNIST A person who has given up all hopes of becoming a capitalist.
COMMUNALISM It is rooted in economics, fostered by politics, shaped by psychology and buttressed by religion.
COMPLACENCY Straightest road to frustration.
COMPLIMENT Lie in court clothes.
A little touch of love surrounded by great imagination.
COMPUTER Brainless chip.
COMPROMISE A temporary expedient often wise in party politics.
COMPULSION Starting point for corruption.
CONCEIT An ‘ I ‘ disease that doctor’s can’t cure.
CONFERENCE Meeting of those individuals who, knowing that they cannot do a thing independently, meet and decide that nothing can be done collectively either.
CONDUCT Sermon of life.
CONFIDENCE A plant of slow growth especially in an aged bosom.
CONSCIENCE The still, small voice that makes you feel still smaller.
Is something that feels terrible when all others feel well.
Fault’s alarm.
The inner voice which prevents some from enjoying the fruits of their sin.
CONSERVATIVE A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
CONSISTENCY The first refuge of the unimaginative.
CONSULT To seek another’s approval of a course already decided upon.
CONTEMPT Murder committed by the intellect.
CONTENTMENT A thing that is acquired by tuning your yearning and earning capacities to the same wavelength.
Wanting what you get as opposed to getting what you want.
CONTRACT A piece of waste-paper unless you can trust the other party.
CONVERSATION A fair for the display of the minor mental condi-tions, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own words to observe those of his neighbours. Is the daughter of reasoning, mother of knowl-edge, the health of the soul, the commerce of heart, the bond of friendship, the nourishment of content and the occupation of men of wit.
CO-OPERATION Doing with a smile what we have to do anyway.
CORPORATION /COMMITTEE An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
COSMETICS A woman’s way of keeping a man from reading in between the lines.
COURTESY An investment which pays regular dividends in friendship.
The quality that keeps a woman smiling when a departing guest stands at the open screen and lets the flies in.
COW A machine that makes grass fit for human consumption.
COWARD One who in perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
COVETOUSNESS The deadliest poison.
CRIME The stories would be shorter if the sentences were to be a little longer.
CRIMINAL A creative artist who does by illegal means what all the rest do by legal means.
A smart creative artist.
One whose success in career depends on not being found out.( Unlike others who measure success by how well they are known).
CRITIC A cutthroat bandit in fame’s way.
A legless man who teaches running.
CRITICISM Harsh truth. Excellent mental tonic if we but take the truth from it and forget the harshness.
CUNNING The dark sanctuary of incapacity.
CURIOSITY Tonic to youth.
One of the permanent and certain characteristics of a rigorous intellect.
Catalyst for progress.
CURSE A blessing whose time has not yet come, maybe!
CURSES Like young chicken they always come home to roost.
CUSTOM Law of fools.
Rules governing life that meet us at the cradle stage and leave us only at the funeral pyre.
The guardian of social values of communities.
Great guide of human life.
CUTLERY Food lover’s jeweellery.
CYNIC Aman who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
A person who is convinced that all persons are as bad as he is.
DANCING (BALL-ROOM ) The art of pulling your feet faster than your partner's ability to step on them.
DEATH Good -rest nobly earned.
Is a law, not a penalty.
Happy release of the soul from the body.
Ultimate destination of life.
DEBT A trap which a man sets and baits himself.
DECEPTION The art of presenting the non-existent.
If agreeable is better than a distressing truth.
DECISION Is often the art of being cruel in time.
DEFINITION Setting limits.
DELIGHT For woman to wound man's self-conceit. For man to gratify woman's every whim.
DEMOCRACY Worship of the jackals by the jackasses.
Bludgeoning of the people, for the people, by the people.
Water-logged old scow, it doesn't get far very fast, but then it doesn't sink.
DENTIST A prestidigitator who putting metal into your mouth pulls coins out of your pocket.
DESPAIR Conclusion arrived at by fools.
Is the damp of hell in contrast to joy which is the serenity of heaven.
DESTINY A series of psychic knots that we tie with our own fears.
DETECTIVE Critic of criminological ways. A smart gentleman who however isalways for all his ingenuity, a step behind the criminal.
DEVIL One who immediately sets an idle man to work.
Agentleman who never goes where he is not wel-come.
DEVOTION Beauty itself, at its best.
DIARY Useful record of our idiosyncrasies.
DICTATORSHIP Is like a beech tree - nice to look at but nothing grows under it.
DIETING Losing game.
The penalty for exceeding the waist limit.
Asystem of starving yourself to death just so you can live a little longer.
DIFFICULTY A mere notice for the necessity for exertion. A bracing of oneself up to meet difficulty in itself is half over-coming it.
An excuse that history never accepts.
DIGNITY A mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
One of the rare things that cannot be preserved in alcohol.
DIPLOMACY The art of saying the nastiest things in the nicest way.
The ability to take something and act as though you were giving it away.
DIPLOMAT A person who can juggle a potato long enough for it to become a cold issue.
DISAPPOINTMENT Nurse of wisdom.
DISAPPOINTMENTS Things that should be cremated and not embalmed.
DISCRETION Salt of life.
A comb that experience hands us when we have lost all our hairs.
DISEASE Retribution of outraged nature.
DIVERSITY Your own opinion in a Hall of Mirrors.
DIVORCE Through with love.
DOCTOR Professional with lot of inside information.
DORMANCY Brooding mother of discontent.
DOUBT Brother devil to despair.
Pioneer, if not the father, of invention.
DRAMA Life's distorted reflection in the mirror of art.
DREAM Imagination in real life.
Basis for solid progress.
DREAMS True interpreters of our inclinations.
DRUG A living pyre.
DRUNK One who takes certain liquids like a fish, but would be better off if he drank only what a fish drinks.
DUTY What is expected of others.
Way of fulfilling tasks. Majority of us mold the ways keeping in mind the reflections of the silly world, although their censors are not in our power and should not be our concern.
DUTIES Tasks we look forward to with distaste, perform with reluctance, but boast about them ever afterwards.
EARTH Frozen echo of the silent voice of God.
ECONOMY Buying a thing, which you do not need just because it is going cheap.
ECSTASY Afeeling you feel when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you've never felt before.
EDUCATION The process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
It is the apprenticeship of life.
The art of learning more than just what you are told.
That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
ELECTRICIAN A man whose business is light.
ELOQUENCE Art of keeping other people away from voicing their opinions.
Vehement simplicity.
EMOTION Sphere of music.
Trigger of action.
EMPATHY Your pain in my heart.
ENEMY One who tells us the truth about ourselves.
ENTHUSIASM The paste that helps you persevere when the going gets tough.
A contagious disease which ought to be welcomed, as it not only yields rich dividends, but also spreads joy.
ENVY It is like a fly that passes over all of bodies sounder parts and dwells upon the sores.
EPITHETS Arguments of malice.
ERROR The discipline through which we advance.
ETERNITY Where is it going to end .
EVIL Something that is here in this world not because God wants it or uses it, but because he knows not, how at the moment, to remove it. It is, in a way, test of our courage.
EVILS In the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers on their road. Both appear great at a distance but when we approach them, we find they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
EXAMINATION Trial of strength between the wisest and the greatest fool .
EXCUSE A guarded lie.
EXECUTIVE An administrative official who is never busy to bemoan how busy he is.
EXERCISE Labour without weariness .
A ritual which fit people do not need and sick people should not go through .
EXPERIENCE A hard teacher who gives the test first and teaches the lesson afterwards.
EXPERT A man who avoids the small errors as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
EXPLANATION Test of friendship. A friend who needs explanations is no worth keeping.
EXPRESSION The most important of all things which we wear yet the one to which we give the least importance.
EXTRAVAGANCE Spending of money on articles which are of no earthly use to your wife.
EYE The tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and the shadow, on a quiet stream.
FACE Mirror of our concealed feelings.
FAILURE The only thing in life which can be achieved without an effort.
An opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
FAITH Substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen.
Illogical belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
Believing is seeing; contra to seeing is believing.
FALSEHOOD The copper that makes truth work better but embaseth it.
Like a nettle, stings those who meddle with it.
FAME Inscription on a grave .
Beauty parlour of the dead.
An undertaker that pays but little attention to the living but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals and follows them to their grave.
A flippant lover.
FAMILY The glue that holds society together.
A well-spring of laughter and strength, knowledge and tears, a place to linger in, and inevitably, to leave.
A group of people who love and humour one another; sometimes hate and hurt one another; sometimes cry with disappointments over one another; and at yet other times cry with tenderness and joy over what is happening to one another.
FAMILY LIFE Matrimony, Acrimony, Alimony.
FANCY Sugar of life.
FARMER A man whose business is growing.
FASHION The tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich.
A form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
FATE The friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish and enemy of the bad.
FATHER Undertaker of all our financial demands.
FAULTS Certain defects in character or manners in other persons which like headlights of a motor car seem only more glaring than our own.
FEAR Mother of foresight.
It is born to fill the vacuum caused by the flight of faith.
The beginning of all weaknesses.
FIDELITY Sister of justice.
FIFTY Youth of old age.
FIRMNESS In matters of truth and duty is generally more decided when most intelligent and conscientious, but, in this material world, is often mistaken for obstinacy and foolishness.
FISHING The art of catching the innocent.
FLATTERY Bad money to which our vanity gives value.
To raise another above oneself.
The art of telling a person exactly what he thinks of himself.
Soft soap that contains 90 per cent lie.
The hand maid of vices.
FLIRTATION Attention without intention.
FLIRTING An optical collusion.
FLOWERS The sweetest things that God ever made but forgot to put a soul into.
FOLLIES Something which everyone has and oft-times, they are the most important things he has got.
FORCE Queen of the world.
FORETHOUGHT Doing unpleasant things for the sake of pleasant things in the future.
FORTY ??? Over the hill ???
Old age of youth.
FRIENDS Are like radio's - some have loud volume some have bad tone.
FRIENDSHIP What is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth and fame. And leaves the wretch to weep.
Is the shadow of the evening which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
It improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.
FRUSTRATION Wet nurse of violence.
Mental indigestion.
FUNERAL Peace, quiet and beautiful flowers.
FURNITURE Soul of the house.
FUTURE Something which always remains even after all is lost in the game of life.
GAMBLING Something for nothing.
Child of avarice, brother of inequity and father of mischief.
GENIUS 10 percent inspiration and 90 per cent perspiration.
GENIUSNESS Art of doing what is impossible for talent.
GENTLEMAN One who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
GHOST The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
GIRLS They are akin to newspapers. They have forms, they always have the last word; back numbers are not in demand; they have great influence, you can't believe everything they say; they are thinner and costlier than they used to be; they get along by advertising; and every man should have his own and not try to borrow his neighbour's. But they differ in one way, they can't be read through and through.
GLORIOUS MEN Scorn of wise-men, the admiration of fools, the idol of parasites and the slaves of their own vaunts.
GLORY The melancholy blazon on a coffin bed.
GOD Blunder of humanity.
GOOD Final goal of ill.
GOODNESS A noble quality. To teach this quality to others is nobler still, and far less trouble.
GOOD-NIGHT Something which can't be good for lover's if it separates them.
GOSSIP Loose talk which no one claims to like but every-body enjoys.
When you hear something you like about someone you don't.
Mortar in the brick of conversation.
GOVERNMENT Assembly of disgruntled representatives of society, generally speaking.
GOVERNOR A device attached to a state to keep it from going ahead very fast.
GRACE The outward expression of the inward harmony of life.
GRAMMAR Logic of speech.
GRATITUDE Memory of the heart.
Most humiliating of all debts.
A word unfit for use amongst friends.
GREATNESS Not a prize but an achievement.
GREEDINESS Greatest of all human failings.
GRUDGE Aparasitical growth. In its primary stage it is usually benign. Operation is simple, safe and effective. But if you let it eat into you deep enough it becomes inoperable.
GUESTS Members of an objectionable tribe, who have two bad characteristics a ) they do not seem to know enough to go to hotels and b ) they expect to be entertained like royalty.
GUILT Social conditioning.
HABITS Threads in the beginning but wires in the end.
HAIR Richest ornament of women.
HAPPINESS Cosmetic for beauty.
Cloak of misery (at times ).
Calm glad certainty of innocence in children.
A good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
A RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS Take equal parts of faith and courage, mix well with a sense of humour, sprinkle with a few tears and add a helping of kindness for others. Bake in a good- natured oven and dust with laughter. Scrape away any self-indulgence that is apparent and serve with generous helpings.
HARD-WORK A thing which everyone likes but only when he is paying for it.
HAT A head wear that will never go out of fashion, it will just look more ridiculous year after year.
HATRED Murder committed by the heart.
Madness of the heart.
Motor of human behaviour.
HEAD An attic stuffed with worn-out furniture.
The greatest undeveloped territory in the world that lies under your head (believe it or not ).
HEAVEN The idea of a future state born out of man's preposterous assumption that such perfect creatures as we must enjoy another existence as a reward of our perfection which we deny to other living beings such as animals and birds.
HEREDITY Stored environment.
HERO An ultimate bore.
HEROISM Self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action.
HISTORY Register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Essence of innumerable biographies.
Romance with the past.
Glass through which we may behold with ancestral eyes, not only the various deeds of past ages and the old accidents that attend them, but also discern the different forms of humours of men.
HOBBY Spice in the mill of life.
A safety valve which prevents a man from blowing up from too much pressure in his daily work.
HOME The spot of earth supremely blest. A clearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
The place where a man is free to say anything he pleases because nobody pays any attention to him.
An invention on which no one has improved yet!
HOME-WORK The penalty for the crime of being a student.
HONESTY A type of insurance policy that used to be issued in the good old days. It was paying rich dividends, but unfortunately the policy lapsed and now its revival is posing insurmountable problems, with the changed values of life.
HONOUR Reward of virtue - a blind angel.
HONEYMOON Coo - existence.
A short period of doting between the dating and debating.
HOPE Poor man's bread and butter.
A good breakfast, but a bad supper.
A gift superior than life itself. With it, life is full, interesting and useful.
The only universal liar who never loses her reputation for veracity.
Deceitful, as she is, serves at heart to conduct us through life by an agreeable path.
HOSPITAL Vicious, alienating death factories.
HOUSEWORK Something you do that nobody in your family notices unless you don't do it.
HUG Energy gone to waist.
HUMILITY Test of greatness.
Hallmark of holiness.
The root, mother, nurse, foundation and bound of all virtue.
A strange possession , which, the moment you feel you have got it, you lose it.
Solid foundation of all virtues.
That low sweet root from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Truly achieved when you have stopped thinking about yourself. HUNCH Reverse of logic.
A riddle that eludes solution.
Conclusions based on facts stored on some unconscious level.
HUSBAND A person who thinks that he bosses the house, while, in fact, he houses the boss.
One who lays down the law to his wife and then accepts all her amendments.
HYPOCRISY Homage paid by vice to virtue.
IGNORANCE Satisfaction with one's own opinions and contentment with one's own knowledge.
IMAGINATION Eye of the soul.
The most elastic of things. It can be stretched indefinitely.
The ability to bend the mind around the corners.
IMITATION Monkey business.
Sincere-most form of flattery.
IMMORTALITY A belief that has survived all ages and tragedies.
INDEPENDENCE The price a woman is ready to pay for the privilege of being called a " married - lady".
INFANT Something that gets you down by day and up at night.
INFIDELITY Fearful blindness of the soul.
INFLATION When nobody has enough money because everybody has too much.
INHERITANCE It has the finest gift we can give to our children when we allow them to make their own way, completely on their own feet, with proper education.
INK Media of writing more sacred for a scholar than the blood of the martyr.
INNOCENCE The sacred amulet against all the poisons of infirmity and all misfortunes, injury and death.
INSTINCT Nose of the mind.
Natural way of doing things.
Genetic gift.
INSULT It is better not to see one than to avenge it.
INTELLECT Starlight of the brain.
INTELLECTUAL One who is more easily taken by mass suggestion than others, because his experience is drawn not from life but more comfortably so from printed paper.
INSTINCT Genetic reward.
INTUITION That inner voice which enables a smart woman to contradict her husband even before he says anything.
JEALOUSY Jaundice of the soul. The homage that inferiority pays to merit.
JOY An inner satisfaction which only serves to make us feel grief more keenly.
JUDGE He who seeing no guidance for human affairs other than his own limited foresight endeavours to play the God and decides what is right and wrong .
JUSTICE A thing known to be blind by the ancients, by ourselves admitted to be blind, will be acclaimed blind by the tongue of our descendants, but still will be craved for.
KINDNESS Its own mother and its own daughter because it is born out of kindness and gives birth to kindness.
Sun-shine in which virtue flourishes.
Golden chain that binds society.
KISS A noun, though often used as a conjunction; it is never declined-it is more common than proper, is used in the plural and agrees with all genders.
A peculiar proposition which is of no use to one yet absolute bliss to two. The small boy gets it for nothing, the young man has to steal it and the old man has to buy it. The baby's right, the lover's privilege and the hypocrite's mask. To a young girl FAITH, married woman HOPE and old man CHARITY.
KNOWLEDGE The small part of our ignorance that we arrange and classify most assiduously.
Eye of desire.
LABOUR Employer of Capital.
LANGUAGE Memory of the human race.
Not only the vehicle of thought but also a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Transmitter of thought from one person to another.
LAUGHTER A sense of our own superiority suddenly awakened by the sight of some kind of inferiority in others.
Is like the bite of a snake. It feels like prick of a needle but it kills after sometime.
Sunlight of the spirit.
LAW It is bad to have it but it is sometimes worse to be without it.
Embodiment of the moral sentiment of the populace.
LAWS Rules framed by the society for its functioning which are useless when the constituents are virtuous and are broken when they are corrupt.
Nets of such a texture that the little creep through, the great break through, and it is only the in-between one's who get entangled.
LAWYER Man who hires out his words and anger.
One who practices law-a bottomless pit.
An engineer who keeps the machinery of justice well-oiled so that it doesn't get out of gear but keeps running smoothly.
LEADER One who never permits his followers to discover that he is as dumb as they are.
LEARNING Eye of the mind.
LECTURE Cure for insomnia.
LECTURER One with his hands in his pockets, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
LEISURE Time for doing something useful.
LETTERS Mirror of heart.
LETTER - WRITING A delightful art of wasting time.
LIAR One who tells the truth about something that never happened.
LIBERAL A man who is willing to spend someone else's money.
One who has both feet in the air.
LIBERTY Something you can only have by giving it to others.
LIBRARY Collection of innumerable dishes of admirable flavour.
The graveyard of the greatest minds where students tread with silent steps.
Time machine that can transmit you to any era in seconds.
LIFE A tragedy for those who feel, a comedy for those who think.
A jig-saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing.
A potpourri of uncertain pleasures and unexpected sorrows.
A drama with Act I-being born, involving innumerable rehearsals; followed by Act II-living a hilarious, romantic, at times tragic, at times dangerous life leading to Act III-death the ultimate goal of life.
LINGUIST A man who has mastered every language but his wife's.
LIPSTICK Something that adds flavour to an age old pastime.
LIQUOR A hot beverage that makes us go straight when the road is curved.
LITERATURE Mirror of prevalent customs and practices of the time.
LOGIC Grammar of reason.
It is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
That branch of human sciences which can be used to prune away all sorts of clogging deadwood that clutters up human language.
LOVE A divine idea never realized.
Conflict between reflexes and reflexion.
The fairest and most profitable guest that a reasonable creature can entertain.
Life's greatest pleasure, either way.
Passions toy.
A rainbow fashioned out of a fusion of tears and smiles of self - sacrifices and self - revelations.
Astrolabe of the mysteries of God.
LOYALTY A word which is black and white, so often misapplied, so double - faced and hard to recognize from one side to the other, that, perhaps, it will be better to leave it out of use altogether. Its presence is assumed, its absence blamed with a partial and unreasonable passion. Rarely the same for him who speaks and him who hears from even the most slightly divergent angle and the fact is that the word is a collective whose use with a singular meaning is almost, without an exception, a mistake.
LUCK Lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
It generally comes to those who look after it, and my notion is, it taps once in a life-time at everybody's door , but if industry does not open it, away it goes.
Chemical reaction produced on mixing preparation with opportunity.
LUXURY Mother of fine arts with genius, which itself is a kind of luxury, as their father.
The vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the life-blood in our veins.
LYING A fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an achievement in a bachelor and second nature to a married man or woman.
MACHINE An aid that may do the work of fifty ordinary workers but fails to do the work of even one extraordinary man.
MAGISTRATE An official who is often required to decide the responsibilities for accidents between vehicles on the road, each, according to its driver, on its proper side, duly signaled and sounded and at the time, stationary.
MAGIC The hand is quicker than the eye is.
MAJORITY A large number of people who have gotten tired of thinking for themselves and have decided to accept somebody else's opinion.
MAN A social animal who can be divided into two broad categories. Those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.
Human race is said to be divided into two sexes of which the man is said to belong to the stronger sex, but in the opinion of this lexicographer " The weaker sex is stronger than the stronger sex because of the weakness of the stronger sex for the weaker sex."
MANNERS The final and perfect flower of noble character.
They are like the cipher in arithmetic, they may not be of much value in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal to the value of everything else.
MARRIAGE A romantic novel in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
It is like the bath-by the time you get used to it, it is not so hot.
A barbaric formula designed originally to perpetuate the servitude of women and developed by modern courts to achieve the enslavement of men.
MARRIED-MAN Those who give-in when right.
MATRIMONY The sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
MATURITY Expertise developed to admit and say " I was wrong " and when right, ability to resist saying Ï told you so".
MEDDLING Principal occupation of women.
MEDITATION Wet nurse of thought.
MEMORY Something which recoils at you when you scold your child for an offense he commits, which you yourself did at his age.
METEOROLOGIST One who looks at the sky and tells us whether.
MIND What is it ? No matter. What is matter ? Never mind.
A part of human body which, like the parachute, works best when open. However, like the richest jewels that are ,sooner or later, found to wear out their settings, a great many of these so called open minds should be closed for repairs at the proper time lest they consume the body to which they are attached.
MIRACLE An event which defies natural laws and the most incredible thing about these miracles is that they do happen.
An event described by those to whom it was told by men who didn't see it.
MIRAGE Look directly at what you seek and see it disappear.
MISCHIEF Something in respect of which it is difficult to decide as to whether we suffer from it most from our enemies with the worst intentions or from friends with the best of intentions.
MISNOMER The right name for the wrong word.
MISERY It loves company but cannot bear competition.
Shadow of happiness.
MISTAKE A new lesson for success.
One that you don't make, if you learn from every one that you do make.
MODERATION The silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
MODESTY Conscience of the body.
An ornament which is a guard to virtue.
The lowest of the virtues. It is a confession of the deficiency it indicates.
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
MONEY A remarkable commodity which when you are to required to pay back always seems twice as much as when you borrowed it.
The sixth sense that enables the other five to be appreciated.
MONEY-LENDER One who serves us in the present tense, lends us in the conditional mood, keeps us in the subjective and ruins us in the future.
MORALE Self- esteem in action.
MORALITY A private and costly luxury.
MOTHER Caretaker of all our domestic needs.
Peacemaker between dad and kids.
MOTHERHOOD State of perpetual servitude.
MOTHER-IN-LAW A referee who has an interest in one of the contestants.
MURDERER A type of homo-sapien who does not exist outside the pages of a cheaper kind of thrillers. You are yourself a potential murderer, restrained so far, perhaps, by the lack of a sufficiently strong motive and partly by a healthy fear of what is represented by the representative of the law at the corner of the street.
MUSIC Voice of God.
MYSTERY Wisdom of the blockheads.
NAME Face by which one is known.
NATURE Visible garment of God.
NECK Measuring jar for the troubles one is facing.
NECESSITY Need I say anything.
Mother of invention.
NEEDLE One whose life is always hanging by a thread.
NEIGHBOUR One who used to drop in for a call and now calls in for a drop.
NUEROTIC A person who has discovered the secret of perpet-ual emotion.
A man who builds castles in the air.
NEWS The first rough draft of history.
NEWSPAPERS World's mirror.
Circulating library with high B. P.
NIGHTMARES Direct result of injudicious feasting.
NOBILITY Like small-pox it leaves its marks even if a man gets over it.
NOISY-PARTY A celebration at your neighbour's place in which you are not taking part.
NOVELTY Grand parent of pleasure.
NON-VIOLENCE Supreme virtue of the brave.
NURSE A person who wakes you up to give you a sleeping pill.
OBEDIENCE Mother of success wedded to safety.
OBITUARY Acompacted version of a personal destiny and his small role in the larger game of life.
OBSTINATE Not one who holds opinions but one who is held by them.
OCCUPATION Scythe of time.
OPINIONS Heirs of our habits and mental customs.
OPTICIAN A man whose business is seeing better.
OPTIMISM Realisation that one window closing could also mean another will open.
OPTIMIST A man who is as often wrong as the pessimist but has lot more fun.
ORATORY The power of talking people away from their sober and natural opinions.
ORIGINALITY A pair of fresh eyes.
OVERWEIGHT A person who is generally beyond his seams.
PALMIST An ignorant man who takes counsel from stars instead of from God who made the stars.
PAIN A strong feeling that at times forces even an innocent to lie.
PAINTING Silent poetry.
PAPER It is the God of bureaucracy, just as the Sun is for other people. The babus who join ink-stained hands in prayer to the processed celluloid sometimes display a faith so blind that it is sublime.
PARKING-SPACE An area of about 7'x14' on the other side of the road.
PARTING A sweet sorrow, but take note that journey's end in lover's meetings.
PASSIONS Certain qualities in human behaviour which are not well looked at. To be frank they are the winds that fill the sails of a vessel. They sink it at times but without them it would be impossible to make way. Many things that are dangerous here below are, all the same, necessary.
PAST A bucket of ashes.
Best prophet of future.
PATHOLOGY Science of disease called 'inquiries'.
PATIENCE The fine art of hoping.
An ornament to a woman and modesty to a girl.
The key for contentment.
An appropriate strategy that is often overlooked on important occasions.
PATRIOTISM The last refuge of a scoundrel.
PEACE A monotonous interval between two wars or disastrous fights.
PEN Tongue of the mind.
PERSEVERANCE The courage to hold on when all others have given up.
PESSIMIST Who rejoices in proving that there is no joy.
PHILOSOPHER A lunatic who can analyze his delusions.
PHILOSOPHY Old hag's description of the menu in paradise.
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
The account which the mind gives to itself of the constitution of the world.
PICTURE Poem without words.
PITY A cheap gift which could have no weight at all either for good or bad but can do a lot of damage.It accentuates troubles that would be less painful if the sufferer is not reminded of them.
PLAGIARISM The unoriginal sin.
PLATITUDE Simple truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
PLEASURE Fruit of a tree called toil.
POET A sick soul of society.
Bad, mad, glad, sad, human being.
POETRY Best words in the best order.
Expression of imagination.
Painting with the gift of speech.
Record of the best and the happiest moments of the best and the happiest minds.
A perfume which on evaporation leaves in our soul the essence of beauty. 6.Men's thoughts tinged by his own feelings.
POLITENESS It is like an air-cushion, there may be nothing in it, but, it eases our joints wonderfully.
POLITICIAN A necessary evil in democracy.
POLITICS Science of exigencies.
POPULACE Contemporary of blotters. They soak it all in but get them backwards.
POPULARITY A crime from the moment it is sought.
Avirtue when men have it whether they will it or not.
POST A strange volume of real life in the daily pocket of a post-man.
POVERTY Violence against humanity.
POWER Iron hand in a velvet glove.
PRAISE Sweetest of all sounds.
A bitter pill. Only a few people can swallow it.
In relationship to oneself must be done daringly. Something will always stick
PRAYER A wish turned heavenward.
OM work.
PREACHER One who cannot do.
PREJUDICE A mist, which in our journey through the world, often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.
A device that enables you to form opinions without getting the facts.
PRIDE The only thing a women in love cannot keep.
A ridiculous encumbrance.
PRINCIPLE A passion for truth and right ?
PROCRASTINATION Thief of our self-respect.
Opportunity's natural assassin.
PROGRESS Exchange of one nuisance for another one .
PROMISE Resolve made to be broken.
PROPHETS Men whose forecasts, if right ,no one remembers and, if wrong, no one forgets.
PROSE Words in their best order.
PROVERB A short sentence based on long experience.
Creation of wise men repeated by fools.
PSYCHOLOGIST A man who, when a beautiful girl enters the room, watches everyone else.
PUBLIC A spoilt child.
PUBLIC-OFFICE First refuge of the incompetent.
PUBLIC-OPINION A vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be an average man.
PUN Lowest form of humour when you don't think of it first.
PUNISHMENT Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand and foot for foot.
PURITY A noble perception which, like virginity, must be violated if life is to persist.
QUALITY The best is cheapest.
Signature of excellence.
QUOTATIONS Short sentences based on long experience.
REACTIONARY A somnambulist walking backwards.
REALITY Not what you feel, but how you feel.
REASON Every why hath a wherefore.
A cold arithmetician summing up our follies.
REBELLION Medicine necessary for the sound health of the government.
REGRET It might have been !
REJUVENATION One step backwards in order to take a better leap.
RELATIVITY That hour, which when you are courting a nice girl, seems like a second, while on the other hand, when you sit on a red-hot cinder, it is the second that seems like an hour.
RELIGION Opium of the people.
Tries to explain the nature of the unknowable.
Root cause of all serious conflicts.
A daughter of hope and fear explaining to the ignorant the nature of the unknowable.
Something men wrangle about, write about, fight about, die for, do anything but live it.
REMEMBERANCE A form of meeting.
REPENTANCE Promise made and kept to do something no more.
REPUTATION An enviable possession so long has one does not have to live up to it.
RESEARCHER He sees what everyone sees, but he thinks what none of us thought.
RESPECT A state of mind forced upon children by their parents, it becomes a habit, in due course of time, and sticks.
REVOLUTION A successful effort to get rid of an existing bad government and its replacement by a worse one.
RHETORIC Art of ruling the minds of men.
RIDICULE Evidence of wit or bitterness which gratifies a little mind or an ungenerous temper but is no test of reason or truth.
RING (WEDDING) The smallest hand-cuffs known to homo-sapiens and generally willinglyÉ..
RITUALS Some tangible thing that adds beauty to worship and bears testimony to splendour and the majesty of God.
ROBOT An industrial worker with a lot of brain but without intelligence.
ROMANCE Dance-tune.
Romance is to love what a picnic is to the business of eating.
RUDENESS Weak man's imitation of strength.
SAILOR A man who makes his living on a wave which he never touches on shore.
SAINT One who is in harmony with his creator.
SARCASM It is like a sword-stick, it appears at first sight to be much more innocent than it really is till, all of a sudden, there leaps something out of it, sharp and deadly, and incisive which makes you tremble and recoil.
SATAN The guide of those who refuse to be guided by others.
SATIRE Art of stepping on somebody's toes.
Humour that has lost its patience.
SCANDAL A breeze whipped up by two or more wind -bags.
SCHOOL-WORK Something parent's ought to know.
SCIENCE Topography of ignorance.
Systematic classification of expression.
SECRET An item of news which we pass on to our dear friends after taking a pledge from them that they will not disclose it to others forgetting that we ourselves had given a similarpledge.
SECRETARY The person behind the phone.
SELFISHNESS That detestable vice which no one will forgive in others and yet no one is without in himself.
SELF-PITY The most crippling handicap one can impose on oneself.
SENSUALITY Sister of infidelity.
SHAME An ornament to the young ; a disguise to the old.
SHOE An article of footwear which if tight, is a blessing in disguise, for it makes us forget all of our other troubles.
SICKNESS A belief which can be annihilated by the mind.
SILENCE A state which is said to be golden, but in the opinion of this lexicographer, if it does not involve tact it is not golden, for it is tact alone that gives it that quality.
SIMPLICITY A quality, which beyond a certain limit, leads to ruin.
SIN An action one who: Commits it is a man, Grieves at it is a saint, Boasteth of it is a devil.
SINCERITY A tree that takes a long time to grow and develop.
SLANDER A winged snake.
SLEEP One normally gets it when it is time to get up.
Best cure for waking troubles.
SMILE Channel of a future tear.
Sword of beauty.
A curve which can set a lot of things straight.
It costs the least and does the most.
SMILES Serious moments in life endure serenely.
SMOG The 'air' apparent.
SNOB You have delighted us long enough.
SNORE Thunder in bed-room.
Minor earthquake.
SNORT Your personal air-pump working full blast.
SNOW Frozen breath of ocean.
SOCIETY A joint-stock company in which the members for the better securing of the daily bread to every shareholder, agree to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
SOLITUDE Nurse of wisdom.
SORROWS They are like the thunder-clouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely grey.
Visitors who always come uninvited.
SOUND Child of silence.
SPEECH Index of the mind.
Hair-brained chatter, irresponsible frivolity.
A good one is like a lady's skirt, short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the substance.
STATISTICS They are like a bikini-bathing suit. What they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital.
They are like a mini-skirt. They cover up all the essentials but they give you ideas.
STOMACH A bowl-shaped cavity containing the organs of indigestion.
STUPIDITY The greatest force in human nature that makes them act as they do.
STYLE Dress of thoughts.
SUCCESS Not committing the same blunder once.
Something you get when you load the camera of the mind with the film of intelligence, release the shutters of goodwill and press the button of diligence.
SUICIDE A crime which, if successfully committed, can invite no punishment.
Refuge from confessions.
A terminal solution, often for temporary problems.
SUPERSTITION Religion of futile minds.
A premature explanation that overstays its time.
SURGEON A man with real inside knowledge.
SUSPICION You're either in the loopor you're out of the loop. But more likely you don't know where the loop is or even if there is, indeed, a loop.
SYMPATHY The key that fits the lock of any heart.
SYNONYM A word you can use when you don't know how to spell the one you first thought of.
TACT Knowing how far we may go too far.
Intelligence of the heart.
Art of handling people without bruising their eye..
One is said to have this quality when he has the art of talking to a woman as if he loved her and to every man as if he bored him.
TAILOR A man whose business is sew-sew.
Of the various types of social-beings inhabiting this earthly hell, it is only his type who behave sensibly. For they have the wisdom to take our measurements anew every time we go to them while all the others go on with old measurements and expect them to fit us.
TALENT Art of doing easily what others find difficult.
TASTE Finer impulse of our nature.
TATTOO Permanent proof of temporary insanity.
TAXES They are indeed very heavy. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our folly.
TEACHER One who is incapable of learning.
TEAR Dew of compassion.
TEARS Silent language of grief.
Summer showers of soul.
The telescope by which man sees far into heaven.
TECHNICIAN A man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its ultimate place in the order of the universe.
TECHNOLOGY Materialised fantasy.
TELEVISION A device which permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can.
TEMPER Something you can't get rid of by losing it.
TEMPERANCE One of the two best physicians of homo-sapiens, the other being labour.
TEMPTATION Something which when resisted gives happiness and when yielded to gives greater happiness.
TENDERNESS Passion in repose.
TENNIS A pastime where love all means nothing.
THRIFT Having an hen tomorrow rather than an egg today.
TIME The most valuable thing we can spend.
A mathematical puzzle which eludes solution.
Nature's way of keeping everything away from happening at once.
TOLERANCE Test of civilization.
TOMORROW The biggest labour saving device.
TONGUE God's gift, Devil's toy.
A little member that boasteth great things. It defieth the whole body. An unruly devil full of deadly poison.
TOURIST A rich vagabond. TRAFFIC-LIGHT
A masterly device to get pedestrians half-way across the road safely.
TRAGEDY A peculiar sense of the presence of someone else's pain, a sense too that quickens our wits; we are given a new range of experience such as sufferings of our own bring but no shock to us past using it.
TREE Something that stands in the same place for days, months and even years and than suddenly, when you least expect it, jumps out right in front of your car.
TROUBLES Certain unfortunate events which it is best to relate to others since the world's dumb indifference could make you mad enough to keep you fighting.
They are like the hills ahead, they straighten out when advances upon them.
TRUTH Amatter of taste.
Time is said to be precious, but truth is more precious than time, though all great truths begin as blasphemies.
TRANSLATION It is like a French lady. It can either be beautiful or faithful.
TWIN Womb-mate.
UNDERSTANDING Shortest distance between two minds intellects.
VACATION A period during which people find out where to stay away from next time.
VANITY Constant enemy of our dignity.
The beginning and end of the man's standing in society.
VENGEANCE A dish that must be eaten cold.
Test for forgiveness.
VICE The darkness that brings virtue to light.
VIOLENCE Last refuge of the scoundrel.
VIRTUE Cheating yourself of your natural desire to win at any cost.
A quality in human-beings that fattens on the vices of others.
VITALITY Ability to persist.
VOLCANO A sick mountain sufferings from hiccups.
WAITING An ennobling exercise for the spirits.
WANT Mistress of invention.
WAR A hideous and apparently incurable corruption in the body of the mankind.
Failure of human wisdom.
WEATHER Something about which everybody talks but does nothing.
WIFE A fair member of the weaker sex whom her male counterpart wants to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness and just stupid enough to admire it.
WINDOW A device for looking through the doors.
WISDOM Realization that a child always needs support and freedom.
Legitimate child of experience.
WISDOM-TEETH Something that starts coming out the first time you bite off more than you can chew.
WISE-MAN One who constantly wonders afresh.
WISH Desire without deserving.
WIT Aquick conception and an easy delivery.
Noblest frailty of the mind.
Salt of conversation.
WOMAN An angel at ten; A saint at fifteen; A devil at forty; A witch at sixty.
WONDER Basis of worship.
WOOD That remarkable material which burns so easily in a forest and with such difficulty in the fire-place.
WORD Skin of a living thought.
Are like leaves, and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
WORK The best way a man has ever invented to escape boredom.
The grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
WORLD It is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it as such. It is a temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of light and peace yet man disquiteth it.
A prison in which we are all serving sentences for things we have done elsewhere.
YAWN A silent shout.
ZEAL Sister of folly when without knowledge.
ZOO A place where we teach animals what behaviour we expect from them.

Let us go back to MAGIC SQUARES
Ralph Strachey's Method.
Mr. Ralph Strachey has devised rules for the construction of a magic square of a singly- even order n where n = 2(2m+1) , The rule states:-- Divide the square into 4 equal quarters A, B, C,& D.
A B
D C
Construct in A, by the Hindu Rule a magic square with the numbers from 1 to u^2, where u = n/2. Construct by the identical method squares B,C&D using numbers from u^2+1 to 2u^2; 2u^2+1 to 3u^2; & 3u^2+1 to 4u^2(n^2).( Best done by adding u^2 to numbers in A to get B, then adding u^2 to B to get C and then adding u^2 to C to get D). Clearly the resulting composite square is magic in columns. Now in the middle row of A take the m cells next but one to the left-hand side and in each of the other rows take the m cells nearest to the left-hand side; interchange the numbers in these cells with the corresponding numbers in cells in D. Next interchange the numbers in the cells in each of the m+2 columns next to the left-hand side of B with the numbers in the corresponding cells of C. Now the resulting square will be truly a magic square. For ex. for a 6x6 square, n = 6, m = 1, u =3.
The preliminary, and the final square are as under:-
08 01 06 17 10 15 35 01 06 26 19 24
03 05 07 12 14 16 03 32 07 21 23 25
04 09 02 13 18 11 31 09 02 22 27 20
35 28 33 26 19 24 08 28 33 17 10 15
30 32 34 21 23 25 30 05 34 12 14 16
31 36 29 22 27 20 04 36 29 13 18 11
Although Mr. Strachey talks of construction of the odd order square by the Hindu rule it is not essential, provided we add u^2 to numbers in A etc., we can use any odd order square to begin with. The Hindu Rule, of course, enables us to get the odd order square quickly. A 10x10 square, using a 5x5 square constructed differently, is generated below:-
First the 10x10 order square before application of the Strachey rule:
03 16 09 22 15 28 41 34 47 40
20 08 21 14 02 45 33 46 39 27 07 25 13 01 19 32 50 38 26 44
24 12 05 18 06 49 37 30 43 31
11 04 17 10 23 36 29 42 35 48
78 91 84 97 90 53 66 59 72 65
95 83 96 89 77 70 58 71 64 52
82 100 88 76 94 57 75 63 51 69
99 87 80 93 81 74 62 55 68 56
86 79 92 85 98 61 54 67 60 73
and now the final square.
78 91 09 22 15 53 66 59 72 40
95 83 21 14 02 70 58 71 64 27
07 100 88 01 19 57 75 63 51 44
99 87 05 18 06 74 62 55 68 31
86 79 17 10 23 61 54 67 60 48
03 16 84 97 90 28 41 34 47 65
20 08 96 89 77 45 33 46 39 52
82 25 13 76 94 32 50 38 26 69
24 12 80 93 81 49 37 30 43 56
11 04 92 85 98 36 29 42 35 73

Auxiliary Square Method.
Magic squares of odd order and doubly even order can be easily constructed by a method which uses 2 auxiliary squares. It, at one go, generates a large number of squares of the given order. Form two auxiliary squares, one with A,B,C,D,.....and the other with a,b,c,d,.... These are to be constructed like any other magic square in as much as each of the alphabets appears once and once only in each row, each column and each diagonal. However the two squares should not be identical. The two squares are to be merged ensuring that each A's gets associated with each a's once and once only. This would ensure that each "a” gets associated with each "A" etc.,. Given below are 4x4 order squares for illustration:-
A D B C
C B D A
D A C B
B C A D
a b c d
c d a b
d c b a
b a d c
Aa Db Bc Cd
Cc Bd Da Ab
Dd Ac Cb Ba
Bb Ca Ad Dc

Aa is now to be read as A+a, Bb as B+b, etc., Now A can be given any of the four numbers 0, 4, 8, 12 and a any of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. (in general 0, n, 2n, 3n, and 1, 2, 3, 4, ....) B and b can be given any of the remaining 3, C and c can be given one of the remaining 2, and .D and d the last numbers. It will be noticed that automatically we have all the required numbers from 1 to 16. This can give us 4!x4! /4 = 144 squares. One such square with A = 12, B = 8, C = 0, D = 4, a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, & d = 4, is generated below as an ex:-
13 06 11 04
03 12 05 14
08 15 02 09
10 01 16 07
For a 5x5 order square we have
Aa Dc Be Eb Cd
Bb Ed Ca Ac De
Cc Ae Db Bd Ea
Dd Ba Ec Ce Ab
Ee Cb Ad Da Bc
with a,b,c,d,e having values 1,2,3,4&5, and A, B,C,D,&E having values from 0,5,10,15 &20. This method immediately yields 5!x5! /4 = 3600 squares.

Here is an 8x8 order square by the auxiliary square method.
Cc Ga Hg De Fh Bf Ad Eb
Fg Be Ac Ea Cd Gb Hh Df
Bh Ff Ed Ab Gc Ca Dg He
Gd Cb Dh Hf Bg Fe Ec Aa
Ef Ah Bb Fd Da Hc Ge Cg
Db Hd Gf Ch Ee Ag Ba Fc
Ha Dc Ce Gg Af Eh Fb Bd
Ae Eg Fa Bc Hb Dd Cf Gh
It will yield 8!x8!/4 squares.

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