The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.'
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Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
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He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
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Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
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The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
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Good poets are like angels of Heaven
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
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I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.
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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
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Go and wake up your luck.
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The blind man is laughing at the bald head.
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Split the atom's heart, and low Within it thou wilt find a sun.
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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
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Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.
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Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.
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It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning.
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Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
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