#sayings

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#found #good #holy #make #many

It is forbidden for a Muslim to curse anything, be it an animal, person, or lifeless thing. ↗

— Anonymous

#beautiful #culture #curse #forbidden #hadees

The real beauty created by man never competes with the beauty of nature; but it only perfectly completes it! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

Gundar seemed to come to a decision. "Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck." "Very wise," Halt said. "And what exactly do your mother's words of wisdom have to do with this situation?" Gundar shrugged. "It looks like a channel. It's the right place for a channel. If I were digging one, this is where I'd dig a channel. So. . ." "So it's probably the channel?" Selethen said. Gundar grinned at him. "Either that or it's a duck. ↗

— John Flanagan

#rangers-apprentice #sayings #funny

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#common-sense #curiosity #deadly-sins #faults #gold

Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you. ↗

— Shri Radhe Maa

#meditation #quotes-and-saying #quotes-of-life #radhe-guru-maa #radhe-maa

I prefer sayings over jokes. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#jokes #over #prefer #sayings

The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society. ↗

— Larry Herzberg

#chinese #culture #language #proverbs #sayings

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ↗

— William Feather

#experience #fables #folk #into #nation

There are very few profound sayings in the world. ↗

— Jeff Rich

#profound #sayings #very #world