A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
SAADIPatience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
More Saadi Quotes
-
-
He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.
SAADI -
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?
SAADI -
The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.
SAADI -
A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane.
SAADI -
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
SAADI -
To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.
SAADI -
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
SAADI -
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
SAADI -
Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.
SAADI -
Be not in the desire of thine own ease.
SAADI -
Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
SAADI -
Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
SAADI -
Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
SAADI -
Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.
SAADI -
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.
SAADI






