Arri Re Quotes & Sayings

Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray
Jews wildered, Magians far on error's way.
We mortals are composed of two great schools
Enlightened knaves or else religious fools. — Al-Ma'arri

[L]ife is one big jest at the expense of humanity. -
'The Mupondawana Dancing Champion — Petina Gappah

Tell me truly, I implore
Is there
is there balm in Gilead?
tell me
tell me, I implore! — Edgar Allan Poe

Over many a race the sun's bright net was spread
And loosed their pearls nor left them even a thread.
This dire world delights us, though all sup -
All whom she mothers - from one mortal cup.
Choose from two ills: which rather in the main
Suits you? - to perish or to live in pain? — Abu'l-A'la Al-Ma'arri

O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold
Are but a cheat contrived by men of old
Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust
And died in baseness-and their law is dust. — Al-Ma'arri

They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have no religion, and the religious, who have no intellect. — Al-Ma'arri

Reason forbade me many things which,
Instinctively, my nature was attracted to;
And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing,
I believe a falsehood or deny the truth. — Abu'l-A'la Al-Ma'arri

They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me
that these are a fiction from first to last.
O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth.
Then perish the fools who forged the religious traditions or interpreted them! — Al-Ma'arri

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands. — Jefferson Davis

All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, 'Get me home alive, God, and I'll seek you and serve you.' I came home, got wrapped up in the celebration, and forgot about the hundreds of promises I'd made to God. — Louis Zamperini

Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men [to thy charity]. For their race brings not harm upon thee in any wise, when thou fearest it from thine own race. — Al-Ma'arri

Forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums — Zbigniew Herbert

I trust God to carry me no matter the outcome. I trust that he has led us here and that he will either fulfill my hopes or repair my broken heart. — Kelsey

The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains. — Al-Ma'arri

For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing. — Anatoly Chubais

Lie." "Well, now," she said, sitting up and crossing her arms, "look who is honing her craft. — Jamie McGuire

Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same. — Al-Ma'arri

I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future. — Shirley Williams

And don't get hurt,' [Dexter] added. 'There's no one to help you up there. And don't go stirring up a lot of trouble for us. This case isn't ripe yet. Until it is, our policy with Mr Big is 'live and let live'.'
Bond looked quizzically at Captain Dexter
In my job,' he said, 'when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's 'live and let die'. — Ian Fleming

The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. — Al-Ma'arri

Reading builds a scaffold of vocabulary and word associations that facilitate learning new information.

It improves your brain processing speed for text because you have more rapid comprehension. — Peter Rogers

A little doubt is better than total credulity — Al-Ma'arri