If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Haste is from the Devil.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one day hang from the end of a rope

If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it.

A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body.