“Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.”

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

Haste in every business brings failures.

Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

We are following Allah’s word. We believe that humanity’s only duty is to honor Allah and his prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.