Naguib Mahfouz Famous Quotes
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Happy is he who can give himself up.
Naguib Mahfouz Quotations
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Malcolm Muggeridge
"I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."
Thomas Fuller
"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure"
Nicolas Boileau
"Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down.
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D Eisenhower
In the woods is perpetual youth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
Rmy de Gourmont
"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were."
John F Kennedy
"There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect."
Niccolo Machiavelli