was recently rummaging through some old notes of my granddad..chanced upon a couple of beautiful expresses:

man as a rule is always a fool,
when it is hot, he wants it cool;
when it is cool, he wants it hot;
always wanting what is not!!

a tiny pebble, idly tossed,
into the placid stream.
with gentle splash, it sinks from sight,
and never again is seen.
But , outward from that central splash,
the spreading ripples tend....
who knows on what distant shore,
the spreading impulse ends....

- authors unknown