Persian Quotes: top 57 famous quotes about Persian

Persian Quotes & Sayings

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Like a Persian carpet the weave of time pushed their lives into a pattern. — Meghna Pant

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale. — Florence Nightingale

When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth - Persian Proverb — Jennifer Fallon

The Persian poet Rumi says, The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. — Elizabeth Lesser

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Now that the barn has burned down, I can see the moon.
- Persian proverb — Samantha Combs

[I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy. — Will Durant

There is no relationship. Women, like men, women, children, babies hamsters.
This is the Google Translate of the quote in Persian, above. — Alice Thomas Ellis

Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well. — Dick Cheney

We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan. — Jon Porter

They spoke in Latin, so that all might understand; but the quotations they flung at each other were Greek and Hebrew, Turkish, Persian. — Dorothy Dunnett

Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf), — George Galloway

Caroline scrambled off his lap, gazing down at the Persian rug. "Is this thing Scotchgarded? — Cecilia London

The polished oak floors reflected the light of the overhead crystal chandelier and gleaned under the plush deep red Persian rug. — Robin R. Murphy

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian. — Juan Cole

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 — Don Marquis

A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade. — Charles Lamb

Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie. — Dennis Miller

Be with those who help your being. — Rumi

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. — Helen Keller

The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must. — Mohammad Javad Zarif

I lost everything I had, but in the process I found myself." - Rumi, 13th-century Persian poet and mystic. — Rahul Deokar

Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet. — Firoozeh Dumas

Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them. — Moshe Katsav

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once. — Mary Renault

For why should not the wine of their own country satisfy men's desires, unless they were to import water also, like the foolish Persian kings? — Clement Of Alexandria

in classical times as Babylonia, consists of the lower half of Mesopotamia, roughly identical with modern Iraq from north of Baghdad to the Persian — Samuel Noah Kramer

should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal. But — Oscar Wilde

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse. — Idries Shah

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines. — Edith Wharton

Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love — Rumi

Jafaa. In Persian, this very poetic word refers to all the wrongs you do to those who love you. — Maziar Bahari

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart. — Mary Renault

Hope had only revealed herself to him when he was immersed in darkness — Soroosh Shahrivar

I have read that the finest Persian carpets would have one strand deliberately left astray, to avoid the sin of pride that perfection might bring. — Ivan Doig

I specifically ordered persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh — Kanye West

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. — Robert Johnson

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew. — Zubin Mehta

[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together. — Neil MacGregor

With wine beside a gently flowing brook - this is the best;
Withdrawn from sorrow in some quiet nook - this is the best — Hafez

Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun ... " Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade. — Steven Pressfield

We're on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It's a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf. — Bob Hope

I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day. — Mary Oliver

The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day. — Lew Welch

Woman is the light of God. — Jalaluddin Rumi

If the diver always thought of the shark, he would never lay hands on the pearl,' said Sa'di, a Persian poet from the thirteenth century. — Roman Krznaric

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. — George McGovern

If there must be a moon, let it be high,
a high moon made in Baghdad, neither Arab, nor Persian,
nor claimed by the goddesses all around us. — Mahmoud Darwish

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug. — Margaret Benson

Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran. — Reza Aslan

Interpreting dreams for Iranians was just as much a sacrament as reading coffee cups was for Turks — Soroosh Shahrivar

Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language. — Abbas Kiarostami

Stay away from the underground lake I implore,
The Siren will see you are heard of no more. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment. — Tom Brokaw

There will be no beautiful widow with Persian eyes sitting at your grave. And teary-eyed kids won't be asking: "Papa, papa, can you hear us? — Ilya Ilf

He's such a dear, Mr. Garnet. A beautiful, pure, bred Persian. He has taken prizes."
"He's always taking something - generally food. — P.G. Wodehouse