44 Quotes by Khushwant Singh

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    Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

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    Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this.

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    Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

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    Men have many faults, women only two: Everything they say, and everything they do.

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    The doer must do only when the receiver is ready to receive. Otherwise, the act is wasted.

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    Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.

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    When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

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