Saying of the ProphetSome behaviourI am like a man who has lighted a fire, and all the creeping things have rushed to burn themselves in it.

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.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Intelligence comes with hard work and curiosity for the unknown.

Wisdom crieth without she uttereth her voice in the street.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

You meet yourself when you start selling.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading.

Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.