Abdel Bari Atwan Quotes

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Time cancels young pain.

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Slight not what`s near, while aiming at what`s far.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Your very silence shows you agree.

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you`ve heard the other side.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Leave no stone unturned.

Man`s best possession is a sympathetic wife.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.