We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Ho puri dil ki har khwaish teri, Ho khushiyon bhara jahaan tera, Agar tu maange aasmaan ka ek taara, To khuda de-de tumko aasmaan saara.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.