book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

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Silent persons are of two kinds, those who have high opinion of themselves and those who have no opinion of themselves.
Tragedy is refusal to compromise one’s dignity in adversity, irony is when you surrender it, and comedy is when you share it.
Palm oil is an extraction from nature. Palm oiling is an extraction from man.
Cruelty is caused by the hateful to stoke the fires of his hatred.
Vanity of vanities, all is glittering vanity in a beauty pageant.
Laughing on dirty jokes is the sign of a healthy mind.
Doctors deal with the pain of human condition, lawyers with its crookedness and clerics with its gullibility.
Nationalism prospers on the passionate prejudices against strangers.
Cleanliness is next to godliness, when the poor have enough to eat and can spare some for cleanliness.
The blue mountains, near Sydney, are one of the splendid scenic places in the world, where one can live an urban life in sylvan surroundings of craggy mountains, winding tracks and deep chasms.
For a cobbler to last, he must know his last.
To imitate is flattery and to be inspired is a compliment.
If the rich are wronged, they can afford to demand justice and get it, but if the poor and deprived are wronged, they can only invoke divine justice and do not get it, at least not in this world.
Forgive the transgression, but beware of the transgressor; he may transgress again.
If you fret about what you do not have, it is the way to greed and sorrow.
If you nurse a grudge, you hurt yourself all the more by keeping its memory alive.
Many flowers are beautiful in a variety of colours and shapes, but only a few are fragrant, like the persons who spread beneficence of their good deeds without expectation of reward or recognition.
A base person thinks himself superior to others. A truly noble person is humble.
An acquaintance is a person you can exchange greetings with and whom you forget the moment he is out of your sight. This is the mark of an urban society.
Sarcasm is a mean replay to an argument.
Things will get worse, if you do not act for them to be better.
If you have talent and no tact, you cannot go far ahead in life. But if you have tact and no talent, you can reach at least half the way in it.
A utopia is not desirable, because it is a perfection by conception, and perfection is monotonous. It will be an agony of listless tedium to live in it.
The meek might inherit their patches of earth but the worldly clever will collect its resources.
For the fanatic stuck in the quagmire of his past, every idea that instigates change is dangerous.
A cactus camouflaged hurts as sharply.
“Frailty, the name is woman,” Cruelty, thy name is man.
There are two sides of every question, the preference and prejudice of the powerful.
The Western propaganda justifying the invasion of Iraq on the media is so incessant that they expect to fool all the people for all the time.
Two is a company; three or four is comfort, but no more.
Politeness in speech is humility of character.
One can eat so much, but one has greed so much.
The hesitant lurches, the careless loiters, and the confident leaps.
A jewel has value for those who know its worth.
Controversy is the hot pursuit of conversation.
Brevity is the soul of incomprehension in specialized studies, such as energy-mass equivalence.
First thing an orator learns is to shun brevity.
Brevity in generality is advisable, if you want to spin on the words to avoid odium in particularity.
Fictional violence in films instigates real bloodshed in life. This is one reason why the twentieth century had been the bloodiest in history.
Advice is not taken, if it is given gratis.
A Bachelor of Arts is a person who has not matured in any art yet.

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