184 Quotes by Egyptian authors

Egyptian sayings carry the warmth of shared bread and salt, the dry humor of a Cairo alley, and the measured balance of Maat. They praise patience like a date ripening in shade, caution against pride carved harder than granite, and treat fate as a river to be read, not resisted. From temple maxims to coffeehouse quips, the language is musical, economical, and sly, blessing the guest, teasing the boastful, honoring mothers, and valuing endurance, wit, and proper measure between desert wind and the steady Nile.

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"I will not be triumphed over"

Cleopatra, Royalty

"Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there"

Mohammed Naguib, Statesman

"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something"

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Leader

"When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist"

Akhenaton, Statesman

"What was taken by force, can only be restored by force"

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Leader

"As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind"

Philo, Philosopher

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"It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance"

Akhenaton, Statesman

"My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely"

Cleopatra, Royalty

"Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons"

Mohamed ElBaradei, Scientist

"The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars"

Anwar Sadat, Statesman

"People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny"

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Leader

"He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision"

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Leader

"In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar"

Cleopatra, Royalty

"Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you"

Cleopatra, Royalty

"They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood"

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Leader

"Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy"

Akhenaton, Statesman

"I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle"

Philo, Philosopher

Small: Philo

"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons"

Mohamed ElBaradei, Scientist

"Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account"

Hosni Mubarak, Statesman

"Insults are the business of the court"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"Working gets in the way of living"

Omar Sharif, Actor

"All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise"

Cleopatra, Royalty

"There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire"

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Leader

"I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me"

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Leader

"Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent"

Cleopatra, Royalty

"Events are not a matter of chance"

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Leader

"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"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, Statesman

"Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

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