Wisdom from the Sages of the Ages
Literary and artistic expressions. A special personal collection and selection of passages, moral maxims, proverbs and phrases arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas to assist in literary composition, derived from ancient and modern English literature. (Carefully accumulated, assembled, edited and compiled with additions by our Father).
ALHAMDULILLAAHI RABBIL AALAMEEN.
Of a good beginning comes a good end.
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
In everything one must consider the end.
A hard beginning makes a good ending.
It's the beginning of the end.
We are dancing on a volcano.
Talk of nothing but business.
Those who in quarrels interpose
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
It is more than a crime; it is a political fault.
History repeats itself.
History is full of human crimes and misfortunes. ?
Man's inhumanity to man made countless millions suffer.
To arms! To arms! You brave!
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
Art is long, life is short.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
All's well that ends well.
What we gave, we have;
What we spent, we had,
What we left, we lost.
It is only the first step that costs.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. (I am the Roman emperor, and am above grammar) ?
The opinion of the strongest is always the best. ?
By the work one knows the workman.
The sign brings customers.
The Fox and the Grapes... "They are too green (sour), and only good for fools." ?
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices.
A kind and gentle heart he had,
To comfort friends and foes.
And what is friendship but a name,
A charm that lulls to sleep,
A shade that follows wealth or fame,
And leaves the wretch to weep?
Oh call it by some better name,
For friendship sounds too cold.
"Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.
Most people judge men only by success or by fortune.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
I see them walking in an air of glory.
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; keep reason under its own control.
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, ---nothing so expensive as glory.
Self praises no matter how eloquent, cannot make great men.
Usually we praise only to be praised.
We hardly find persons of good sense save those who agree with us. ?
The infamous are fond of fame.
There is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
He is too fond of fame, for the desire of glory clings even to the best of men longer than any other passion.
The love of praise, however concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in every heart.
We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
"That was excellently observed," say I when I read a passage where the writer's opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, then I pronounce him to be mistaken.
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. (If he stays composed and does not lose his temper).
Fair and softly goes far.
Strike whilst the iron is hot.
You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.
Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.
All delays are dangerous in war.
Delay always breeds danger.
A bird in hand is better than ten in the woods.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
It is better to have a little than nothing.
Better is half a loaf than no bread.
It is wise not to venture all eggs in one basket.
Many smalls make a great.
Ill-luck seldom comes alone.
Why do you lead me to a wild-goose chase?
Pen is the tongue of mind.
Comparisons are offensive and smelly.
Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock.
The countryman who looked for his donkey while he was mounted on its back.
Fine point gets blunted.
I would do what I please; and doing what I please, I should have my will; and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
Surgeon cuts the cureless limb.
Mother's pride and father's joy.
My lovely loving boy,
My hope, my life, my joy.
The sunshine of our life.
We have either outward difficulties to wrestle with, or internal ones.
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs.
When I play with my cat, who knows if I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
Man cannot make a worm, and yet he is busy making gods by dozens.
Saying is one thing, doing another.
The truth is not hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the Divine Knowledge.
Few men have been admired by their own domestics.
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Not because Socrates said so... I look upon all men as my fellow citizens.
Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man."
Let down the curtain, the farce is over.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
By robbing Peter he paid Paul,
And hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.
We do nothing but comment upon one another.
Do nothing secretly, for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
He hides a dark soul and foul thoughts.
Speech was made to open man to man, to communicate the mind and not to hide it.
"Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts." ?
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Time as it grows old, teaches many lessons.
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
Where are the snows of last year?
Time ripens all things.
It is enough to scare you out of your seven senses.
Good talkers are only found in New York.
Better to have one friend of great value than many friends who are good for nothing.
There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from custom is the unwritten law.
Necessity has no law.
"We are undone if we are known,"--"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known."
"They'll kill you when they are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses."
Asked what a friend is, and answer was, "One soul abiding in two bodies." How we ought to behave to our friends; and the answer was, "As we should wish our friends to behave to us."
When he was praised by some wicked man, he said, "I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing. He can speak well of no man living."
What was the proper time for supper, and he answered, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
A miserly rich man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him.
It's a mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.
With all his immense wealth, when he dies he shall carry nothing away.
The jealous people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
Don't be influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence.
Let your entanglements be few, if you like to lead a tranquil life.
The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many millions of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.
The river glides at its own sweet will.
Brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
There never was in the world two opinions alike; The most universal quality is diversity.
Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones.
Time is a river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Everything is in a state of metamorphosis and evolution, you yourself are in everlasting change and so is the whole universe.
Mark how fleeting and insignificant is the state of man, ---yesterday in embryo, to-morrow a mummy or ashes.
Look beneath the surface.
For the hair's breadth of time given to you live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, praising the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
In the morning, when you are sluggish say, "I am rising to a man's work."
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fit by nature to bear.
His only fault is that he has no fault.
All things now are as they were in the days of those whom we have buried.
All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
Step forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it. Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
If it's not proper, do it not; if its not true, speak it not.
"The biggest rascal that walks upon two legs."
I am in a perfect state of health, hoping you are in the same.
It is not an original expression of mine, but is taken from the greatest men of history.
The living voice is that which sways the soul.
He looked with favor on superior courage.
Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
Since it is Reason, which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
In the lexicon of youth there is no such word as "fail."
"What are you afraid of?"
The fear of falling is worse than falling itself.
Now join in hand brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
"United we stand, divided we fall!"
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one.
>The law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
We ought not to be affected by things not in our own power.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable.
The loss, which is unknown, is no loss at all.
It is futile to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
More worshipped the rising than the setting sun.
They were slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable NO.
Alexander wept when he heard that there was an infinite number of worlds; his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he answered, "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?"
Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
Wise men profited more by fools than fools did by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart. (There will be no steeling).
On deathbed, asked if he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"
He is reported to have said wittily of a good man that died about the time of the battle" How come he has so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?"
To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, he said, "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot."
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favors and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
They that were serious in ridiculous matters would be ridiculous in serious affairs.
Hold the fort! I am coming!
"He came, he saw, he conquered."
When asked what boys should learn, "That," said he, "which they shall use when men".
He was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue."
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.
I scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.
The fool does think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
"I'll news goes quick and far."
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
A traveler standing long upon one leg, said, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, ---nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely difficult.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is speaking painting.
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
I am my own ancestor--- (when asked as to his ancestry).
Love truth, but pardon error.
Don’t hate the offender, yet detest the offence.
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it. ? (If this actor is not punished he will turn this world of yours and ours into hell).
Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.
Let no guilty man escape.
Nothing emboldens crime so much as mercy.
The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted.
Neither fear, nor wish for, your last day.
You can learn nothing without being taught.
The dogs keep running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodiles, so that they may not be seized by them.
A bad bargain is always a ground for repentance.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills, which you should avoid.
This is a wise maxim, "to take warning from others of what may be to your own advantage."
The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Fire is the test of gold.
A shoemaker should give no opinion beyond the shoes. ---A piece of advice which has equally passed into a proverbial saying.
"Rats leave a sinking ship."
To do two things at once is to do neither properly.
An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
Good company in a journey makes the way shorter.
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.
No tears are shed when an enemy dies.
The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Never promise more than you can perform.
No one should be a judge in his own case.
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.
A guilty conscience never feels secure.
Indemnity for the past and security for the future.
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
He pleases the entire world, but cannot please himself.
We that live to please must please to live.
No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
He half knows everything. ?
Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
Fortune favors and helps the brave.
It is easier to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
When fortune flatters, she does it to betray. ?
Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.
Habit is a second nature.
Custom is almost second nature.
Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.
No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
When I am dead let fire destroy the world; it matters not to me, for I am safe. ?
I am the most concerned in my own interests.
The Omnipotent God with His thunder made gods tremble.
Many a time, from bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
They feared lest the sky should fall upon them.
Look at the mouse, how shrewd an animal, it never entrusts its life to one hole only.
The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
The unexpected always happens. ---A common proverb.
"Charity begins at home"
Each man reaps on his own farm.
If his son asks bread, will he give him a stone?
Waste not fresh tears over old grief.
Man's best comfort is a sympathetic wife.
Second thoughts, they say, are the best.
Second thoughts are always wiser.
Among mortals second thoughts are the wisest.
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
"We will never give up our virtue in exchange for their wealth."
It is virtue that makes the bliss wherever we dwell.
Blushing is the color of virtue.
A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing
When good men die their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone.
One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
Often has even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.
In a just cause the weak overcome the strong.
A lie never lives to be old.
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
War loves to seek its victims in the young.
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
Benefit from the ancient sayings of the famous among men.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
It is not the places that grace men, but men the places.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Gain not base gains; base gains are same as losses.
Diamond cuts diamond.
Why flash those sparks of fury from your eyes?
Why do you shiver and shake with rage.
Remember, when the judgment is weak the prejudice is strong.
Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.
"War even to the knife".
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb.
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Behold how brightly breaks the morning!
Though bleak our lot, our hearts are warm.
To make a mountain out of a molehill.
To the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.
All we ask is to be left alone.
No sight is so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.
Stately and tall he moved in the hall.
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November,
February has twenty-eight alone,
All the rest have thirty-one;
Excepting leap year, --that's the time
When February's days are twenty-nine.
Woodman, spare that tree!
In youth it sheltered me.
I remember, I remember
How my childhood fleeted by,
The mirth of its December
And the warmth of its July.
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears, ---
Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!
Take them, and give me my childhood again!
The best thing between France and England is the sea.
The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
The royal navy of England---the floating bulwark of the island.
Britannia rules the waves!
Britons never shall be slaves.
The air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave.
Forgotten is Britain's glory.
He heeds not, he hears not; he's free from all pain;
He sleeps his last sleep; he has fought his last battle;
No sound can awake him to glory again!
The Grave of Bonaparte.
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
Where is the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome?
'T is Greece, but living Greece no more!
Let us have peace.
It's a land flowing with milk and honey.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali Ben Abi Taleb.
No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a duty
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, in the strife of Truth with Falsehood.
Aspiration sees only one side of every situation.
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and experience.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
He ascended fame's ladder so high.
America! Half-brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land.
Honest labor bears a lovely face.
There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
The primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
Good time's coming boys!
Good time's coming.
Now I know many ways how not to do it.
He looked with one vast substantial smile.
I see my way as birds their trackless way.
God is the perfect poet.
It's wiser being good than bad;
It's better being meek than fierce.
It's fitter being sane than mad.
Of what I call God, and fools call Nature.
Revolutions are not made; they come. (How about the opposite?)
Man is not the creature of circumstances; it is the other way around.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. Puritanism.
Democracy, ---that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people, of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God.
Let us have faith that
right makes might; and let us dare to do our duty as we understand it. That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people. Speech at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863.People's government, made for the people, by the people, and answerable to the people.
Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that God has bestowed upon mankind.
The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Liberty and Unity, now and forever, one and inseparable.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, ---that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
O Liberty! Liberty! How many crimes are committed in your name!
Unfortunately, successful crime is called virtue.
It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any nation of the world.
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings, which a government can confer on a people. That is the best government, which makes the people happy, and knows how to make them so.
Bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do.
With malice towards none,
With charity for all,
With firmness in the right,
As God gives us to see with His Light.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! (Muhammad Ali Jawhar)
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education.
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky. I know it is a sin
For me to sit and grin.
My country, 't is of thee,
Sweet land of liberty.
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by thy might,
Great God, Great God, our Light.
An hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Guard it with a watchful eye.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
Abundant streams of revenue gushed forth.
When tillage begins, other arts follow.
Justice is the great interest of man on earth.
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever religious or political affinity.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Difference of opinion has to be tolerated.
Difference of opinion is from God as a test of us all and a challenge. Let us courageously meet the challenge and pass the test by living together with tolerance and love and march forward for our peaceful coexistence.
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected, guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step.
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Cæsar had his Brutus, Charles the First, his Cromwell.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
"I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice."
But oars alone can never prevail
To reach the distant coast;
The breath of heaven must swell the sail,
Or all the toil is lost.
(Human Frailty)
By the blessing of God ---Independence now and Independence forever.
Here is the history; the world knows it by heart.
Take offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Power is a trust and we are accountable for its exercise.
He was guilty of no error.
The land of the free and the home of the brave!
Amicably if we can, violently if we must.
Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
The laws are with us and God on our side.
His eyes are in his mind.
He sees with the heart.
They live no longer in the faith of reason.
He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.
The resolution was passed without one dissenting vote.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
We should provide in peace what we need in war.
Freedom has a thousand charms to show.
The Fourth of July: A star for every State, and a State for every star. It will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.
I believe no government can endure permanently half slave and half free.
He sounds like he is the hub of the solar system.
To be seventy years young is far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
The beating of my own heart was all the sound I heard.
For it was in the golden prime
Of good Haroun Alraschid.
Recollections of the Arabian Nights.
Self-knowledge, self-esteem, self-control
, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
The Charge of the Light Brigade.
His mind is clouded with a doubt.
An infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light.
The Struggle for Existence. Darwin called the struggle for life." The expression, the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and convenient.
The Survival of the Fittest.
He takes the breath of men away.
And step by step, since time began,
I see the steady gain of man.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal,
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Our hearts are stout and brave.
There is no greater sorrow than to remember the happy time in misery.
We have been friends together, In sunshine and in shade.
We have lived and loved together
Through many changing years.
We have shared each other's gladness,
And wept each other's tears.
Let us swear an eternal friendship.
Within our breast this jewel lies...
From our own selves our joys must flow.
Thus hand in hand through life we'll go
It's checkered paths of joy and woe
With cautious steps we'll tread.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
A communist government is a vicious, violent, barbarous, inhuman and organized hypocrisy.
They are the most villainous, licentious, abominable so called human beings.
A precedent preserves a principle.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
The speaker said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe however gradual may be the growth of confidence that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Principle is my motto, not expediency.
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
He is one of those wise humanitarians who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
He was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
He is ignorant in spite of experience.
Hell is full of good intentions.
It is always morning somewhere in the world.
For what are they all in their high conceit?
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
To be great is to be misunderstood. ?
All things come round to him who will but wait.
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
A few men in the world to ride and millions bridled to be ridden.
The life of a family is a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.
Now, if I were a gravedigger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Some people are so fond of bad-luck that they run halfway to meet it.
Magnificent are the mountains of Switzerland and Kashmir.
On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead."
Late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to him, "Is it then a time for you to be learning now?" "If it is not now," he replied, "when will it be, when I am dead?"
Let the unlearned learn, and the learned delight in remembering.
Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to God." He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.
I know everything except myself. ?
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
It is good to live and learn.
Make it your business to know yourself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Let us seek and have light not darkness, knowledge not ignorance.
Mystery does not impress me; I would rather serve light and knowledge than ruling fog or ignorance.
"Ignorance is the mother of devotion". ?
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because it's an excuse every man will plead and no man can tell how to refute him.
Learn about the Wisdom of Solomon.
Better late than never.
Literature consoles sorrow and it brings gladness to eyes.
It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
There is neither less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought than in being the first author of that thought.
Though old the thought and oft exprest,
'T is his at last who says it best.
The application of a thought has deserved a talent.
The everlasting influence of Islam cannot be undermined.
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
A blessed companion is a book, --a book fitly chosen is a life-long friend. How about the Qur'an?
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of the creation of God is the Holy Qur'an and the life of Prophet Muhammad PBUH. (Peace Be Upon Him).
QUR'AN, a book which if everything else should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Our forefathers had no other intact heavenly revealed books, just the Qur'an.
Love of God is indestructible.
"God is kindly slow to punish."
God be thanked.
Praise the Lord of mankind.
Eyes are made for seeing the signs of God.
Look up to God and say, "Make use of me for the future as Thou wilt. I refuse nothing, which seems good to Thee."
Whoever prefers the service of others before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.
"Let us worship God."
Make reason and the will of God prevails.
He created His masterpiece.
God made him, and then broke the mould. ---Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
The noblest man that ever lived in the tide of times.
He had the mildest manners, and the gentlest heart.
He from whose lips divine exhortation flowed.
His life has flowed as a sacred stream of wisdom.
He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.
His life dignified humanity.
They received from their contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from progeny: Iqbal and Mawdudi.
He had an encyclopedic mind. He is indeed a kind of semi-Solomon.
That most splendid eloquence impressed everybody.
No sounder piece of Islamic manhood was put together in twentieth century.
He was the pinnacle of the wisdom of our ancestors.
The rose that all are praising.
Loved at home, revered abroad.
In death a hero, as in life a friend!
His head was silvered over with age,
And long experience made him sage.
Oh good gray head which all men revered!
There he lived in noble simplicity,
There he died in glory and peace.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness. To sorrow
I bade good-morrow.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late;
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds.
A Muslim is the highest style of man.
A Muslim is God Almighty's gentleman.
A Muslim is the noblest work of God.
Exquisite and lovely like Nature.I was born a Muslim; I will live a Muslim; I shall die a Muslim.