Strange & Unusual Sayings

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Whosoever, O Mazda, by his thoughts, words, and deeds makes a sacrifice to Thee, he shall be granted the best existence.

What has been affirmed without proof can also be denied without proof.

Don't mix a fire with a knife.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Apprehended slaves trying to run back to barbarian lands should either have their feet cut off or be sent into the mine.

I will either find a way or make one.

Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

Even as a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Let the dead bury their own dead.

To worship ancestors whom one does not know is to be presumptuous.

All living beings are endowed with consciousness.

I am not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, but the Lord hath sent me unto thee.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

Eureka! (I have found it!)

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

I will not be triumphed over.