Muriel Spark Quote

Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side, the traveler, and...

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its surface by the Sun and is never proud to say "I am the source of light"....

Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.

Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty!

Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.

Even the proud in all their boasting, must fall silent before the wise.

Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).

Don't hide yourself. Stand up, keep your head high and show them what you got!

You have two choices in life when it comes to truthful observations by others that anger you: You can be ashamed and cover it up by letting your pride take you in the extreme opposite direction, in or...