Life & Aging Sayings

O blind greed, and foolish mortals' minds, that spur you on in life with such desire!

My guide and I entered that hidden road to return to the bright world; and without thought of any rest, we climbed up, he first and I second, to the point where I saw, through a round opening, some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears; and thenc…

After the war-fires of three months, One message from home is worth a ton of gold.

He had maad ful many a mariage Of yonge wommen at his owne cost.

The Sultan of this land is a generous man, but he has a strange habit of giving gifts of old clothes and worn-out shoes.

I saw a market in this city where they sold human flesh. It was a most disturbing sight, and I quickly left.

I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.

Bada hua to kya hua, jaise ped khajoor. Panthi ko chhaya nahin, phal lage atidoor. (What good is it to be big like a date palm tree? It gives no shade to travelers, and its fruit is far out of reach.)

Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?

The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Fills the all-empty Spirit, and can transmute Base Metal into Gold, and Gold to Life.

The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep, They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.