Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountif...
What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in, whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots we water, to whom most of us rarely give a second thought, are so poorly understood. We need to come, as soon as possible, to a ...
The city, whose physician has the gout, is in a bad state.
Many are the eyes of the person whose spouse commits adultery.
I sing the song of the person whose bread I eat.
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.
Happy is the woman whose husband does not speak to her.
He whose heart is aroused by love will never die.
Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a lig...
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free ...
He whose mother is naked is not likely to clothe his aunt.
There are many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
An oven whose door does not shut does not bake its loaves.
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls...
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.
I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
