Ya Ummi(my mother), I cannot live my life with a woman who has no key to my mind and does not share my concerns. She cannot - will not - read anything. She shrugs off the grave problems of the day and asks if I think her new tablecloth is pretty. We ...
So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, just, but you are there like a ghost, a will o' the wisp. Not long ago you burned--your heart burned--in my mind like silver fire. But after that nigh...
There is another life both for you and for me,’ said I. ‘If it be the will of God that we should sow in tears now, it is only that we may reap in joy hereafter. It is His will that we should not injure others by the gratification of our own earth...
How many people today live in a language that is not their own? Or no longer, or not yet, even know their own and know poorly the major language that they are forced to serve? This is the problem of immigrants, and especially of their children, the p...
I believe in going with the flow. I don't believe in fighting against the flow. You ride on your river and you go with the tides and the flow. But it has to be your river, not someone else's. Everyone has their own river, and you don't need to swim,f...
The eagle was killed by an arrow made from its own feathers.
The eagle was killed by an arrow made with his own feathers.
The hunchback sees the hump of others -- never his own.
An ennobled peasant does not know his own father.
Everyone thinks his own spit tastes good.
A hunter's knife cannot carve its own handle.
A kitchen knife cannot carve its own handle.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
A forest would want to be burned by its own wood.
Your own rags are better than another's gown.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
They know not their own defects who search for the defects of others.
Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
He that is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.
The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.
Your opinion should always be based on what you have seen with your own eyes, what you have heard with your own ears and what you have felt with your own heart.
