Al-Mutanabbi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.
There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
Ghana is like a lion without a head
Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

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