Top 170 Persian Quotes & Sayings

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

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

Social media is important, but it does not bring down governments. Governments can shut down the Internet. Governments can control media access. If they do what the Tunisians did and try and negotiate with the opposition, then the media's still open, the international community can learn what's happening in the country, and then that can provide inspiration. But in mid-2009, the Iranian regime just shut down the Internet. Facebook went dark. Twitter went dark. BBC Persian, Voice of America, Persian News Network all went dark. That was it.

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

My orange Persian Mews hangs out with me while I write.

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

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

Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is no longer the case. The United States is once more an oil exporter. Available and accessible reserves of oil and natural gas in North America are far greater than was once believed. Yet the assumption that the Persian Gulf still qualifies as crucial to American national security persists in Washington. Why?

It would be great if I woke up tomorrow and could speak Persian. Wouldn't you love to wake and have a language in your mind that wasn't there the night before?

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.

The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991.

King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that all those men of yours are so intent upon doing?' 'They are plundering your city and carrying off your treasures,' Cyrus replied. 'Not my city or my treasures,' Croesus corrected him. 'Nothing there any longer belongs to me. It is you they are robbing.'

I grew up eating and loving Persian food, going to school, and everyone making fun of me.

The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.

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

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or an elephant or a rhino for that matter.

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

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

If I waited to write only for a Persian lesbian, I'd still be waiting. But I can write for straight white men because those are the jobs.

Historically, and since, 1520, eighteen Treaties have been concluded between the Persian State and its western neighbours regarding its relations therewith including the question of borders. On all occasions, the Persian State chose the opportunity to violate the said Treaties whether by word or deed.

Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able to express practically all aspects of the spiritual life and our existential situation in the world today as human beings in beautiful Persian poetry.

The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they refused to adopt the Arabic language, and it's a great point of pride to them that Persian culture and the Persian language and Persian literature survived the conversion to Islam. And the conversion to Islam also was for most of them not the Sunni majority form, but the Shia one. So there's a great discrepancy between Iranian society and many other of what we think of as Arab Muslim States and systems.

I was Persian-American, but I hated bringing Persian food to school. I just didn't want to stand out in that way. I wanted to be like everybody else.

My mom, who left Iran in 1976, steeped us in the smells, tastes, and traditions of Persian cuisine.

No Persian meal is complete without an abundance of herbs.

The cornerstone of every Persian meal is rice, or polo.

When the Romans in the last age of the republic came into immediate contact with Iran as a consequence of the occupation of Syria, they found in existence the Persian empire regenerated by the Parthians.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

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

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

Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit.

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

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.

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

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

I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots

In fact, my mom would have gone to the Persian Gulf War had she not been pregnant with me.

This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.

I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen of the world; that's what I prefer.

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

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

I specifically ordered Persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple Persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh.

A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.

Your stereotypical L.A. Persian kids were not working at Sbarro pizza in the mall, but I was.

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

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Chinese get over 40 percent of their oil from the Middle East through the Persian Gulf, but have you ever seen a Chinese aircraft carrier sitting inside the Persian Gulf? For at least 40 years, the United States of America has been guaranteeing Chinese energy supplies. Sitting here today, the US provides funds to, honest to God, 99 percent of the countries on the planet. We even give North Korea humanitarian aid. We give them food, and God knows what they do with it. They probably feed it to the crooks in the headquarters.

The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

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

I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.