Arab Poet Quotes

#1. Don't make a big to-do about the turkey; brine it, put it in the oven, and don't think about it again.

Ruth Reichl

#2. A great poet must have the ear of a wild Arab listening in the silent desert, the eye of a North American Indian tracing the footsteps of an enemy upon the leaves that strew the forest, the touch of a blind man feeling the face of a darling child.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#3. People differ to such a degree they agree on nothing,
Except death that is, and even on that they disagree.
Some say the soul goes on after the death of the body
While others claim the soul, with the body, dies too.

Mutannabi

#4. Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. We are now after 7 months operation making money here.

Henry Wells

#6. Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire

Abdu'l- Baha

#7. A coward may die many times, but a brave man dies only once. If I die for you, I won't consider it death but love.

Hani