Egyptian Quotes

• The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• We must educate our children to become like young Egyptian people.

  Barack Obama

  Children, People, Egyptian Revolution

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• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 12, 2011

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• Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

  Anthony Sampson

  Liable, Monarchy, Opening

  Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton

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• Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.

  Johnny Carson

  Rose, Dancer, President

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• There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

  Omar Sharif

  Italian, Play, Needs

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• Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

  Whitley Strieber

  Prayer, Names, World

  "More Giants of the Genre". Book by Michael McCarty, 2004.

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• Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

  Erma Bombeck

  Home, Forever, Spices

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• The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

  Golda Meir

  Running, Fighting, Egypt

  Life Magazine (p. 32), October 3, 1969.

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• We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.

  A. E. Waite

  Tarot, Cards, Evidence

  A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Country, Religious, Outcomes

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

  Honore de Balzac

  Father, Men, Bakers

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• The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Architecture, Remember, Contribution

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

  Akhenaton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• A contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

  Akhenaton

  Mind, Treasure, Trouble

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• She must have Egyptian blood. Every time I try to kiss her she says, "Tut, Tut!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Kissing

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• If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.

  Lindsey Graham

  Heart, Civilization, Pyramids

  "State of the Union" With Candy Crowley, transcripts.cnn.com. February 13, 2011.

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• Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sleep, Trying, Bed

  The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)

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• We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Hurt, Drama

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.408, Harvard University Press

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• At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

  Plato

  Art, Science, Discovery

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.442, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.

  J. C. Ryle

  Hands, Idols, Snakes

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• But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stars, Heart, Past

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.9

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• With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

  George Eliot

  Book, Past, Mirrors

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, George Eliot

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• These fourteen phases from full moon to new also have their result, and for the Egyptian consciousness this result was achieved through Isis. These fourteen phases are ruled by Isis.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Moon, Isis, Phases

  Rudolf Steiner (1990). “Egyptian Myths and Mysteries”, p.86, SteinerBooks

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• There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Plato, Book, Greek

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.24, e-artnow

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