Great Throughts Treasury

"To waste time in futile pursuits."

"To weigh everyone in the same scale. In other words it suggests a lost sense of discrimination between good and bad."

"Too many cooks spoil the broth."

"Too many masters cannot manage a simple thing."

"Trading tricks with the trick master, from whom the art is learnt."

"Truth is bitter."

"Trying to be a dignified beggar."

"Two are a company, and three are not."

"Two make a company, three make a row."

"Unity is equal to a thousand golden coins."

"Unity is strength."

"Unmanageably scattered property or assets."

"Unnecessary conflict while eating."

"Unorganized system. Impossible things."

"Unwanted meddling in affairs which could prove harmful."

"Useless imitation."

"We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it."

"Welcome an opportunity as it comes, call it a trifle if it doesn't."

"Well tested proposition."

"What does the Sufi give? Love to all created things. What does the Sufi get? A greater power of love. What does the Sufi find? GOD. And lose? Self. - Hazrat Inayat Khan"

"What is done for you - allow it to be done. What you must do yourself - make sure you do it. - Khawwas"

"Whatever has bloomed, has bloomed from the very bud."

"Whatever is in your heart, it is not in your pocket."

"Whatever one didn't want to do, one is forced to do the same."

"Whatever we perceive in the world around us tends to reflect who we are and what we care about most deeply, as in the old saying, "When a thief sees a saint, all he sees are his pockets.""

"Whatever you have in your mind - forget it; whatever you have in your hand - give it; whatever is to be your fate - face it! - Abu Sa'id"

"When good and bad persons are not distinguished."

"When one doesn't get better food at other's place."

"When pumpkins are watered, brinjals also get watered."

"When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left."

"When youngsters expect their elders to serve them."

"Whenever there is a problem there is way out."

"While alive not even ashes, but when dead, satin to cover the body."

"While in Rome do as the Romans do."

"Who is a Sufi? A Sufi does not ask who a Sufi is."

"With short hands and long tongue."

"Worries last as long as life lasts."

"Would a goose come out of a cake?"

"You should not take relatives for granted."