Mulla Quotes

#1. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Patience: A support for the disappointed.

Idries Shah

#2. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Poverty: The result of marriage.

Idries Shah

#3. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
A fool:
A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.

Idries Shah

#4. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Intellectual: One who knows no craft.

Idries Shah

#5. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Bribe
Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.

Idries Shah

#6. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Drugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.

Idries Shah

#7. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Wisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

Idries Shah

#8. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Flattery:
One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Idries Shah

#9. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Adherent:
Someone who will believe anything except what he should.

Idries Shah

#10. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Penitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself.

Idries Shah

#11. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Community: Irrationals unified by hope of the impossible.

Idries Shah

#12. Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.

Idries Shah

#13. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Supporter: Someone who will say anything.

Idries Shah

#14. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Emotionalist:
A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

Idries Shah

#15. Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.

Idries Shah

#16. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Truthful man:
He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.

Idries Shah

#17. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.
Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill.

Idries Shah

#18. In a competitive crowded world market, it's the well positioned brands that Stands Out!

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#19. Hindu law of contract known as damdupat, according to which interest exceeding the amount of the principal cannot be recovered

Dinshah Fardunji Mulla

#20. Devyn: "But what can I say? I'm irresistible."
Bride: "No, you're a ho, but the good news is I'm ok with that!

Gena Showalter

#21. A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument

Andrew Pettegree

#22. His hand still rested on her breast, but his fingers had stilled. The touch that had been so agitating now felt comforting. As though he soothed her by it.

Meredith Duran

#23. I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit into smaller bags.

Iris Apfel

#24. It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.

Michel De Montaigne

#25. In Him there is no room for non-existence or imperfection

Mulla Sadra

#26. The individual is a nut so impossible to crack that no theoretic tooth will be able to manage it. And so nothing will be able to justify your defeat, bumblers!

Witold Gombrowicz

#27. You know, there's pride, and then there's stupidity

Robert Galbraith

#28. All I am is what I'm going after.

Al Pacino

#29. They asked for Plato's assistance. He told them: "You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God." ... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge.

Mulla Sadra

#30. Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.

Gillian Marchenko

#31. People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses.

Keith Ferrazzi

#32. Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...

Marcel Proust

#33. The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.

John Templeton

#34. It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

Jeff VanderMeer