Quotes of Obeisance - somelinesforyou

“ Together kneeling, night and day, Thou, for my sake, at Allah's shrine, And I — at any God's for thine. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. (1 Kings 8:54). ”

- Bible

“ The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church. ”

- Nadine Gordimer

“ I don't go to church; kneeling bags my nylons. ”

- Billy Wilder

“ The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling. ”

- Douglas William Jerrold

“ Piety — warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace — is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Gul ne gulshan se gulfam bheja hai, Sitaro ne aasman se salaam bheja hai, Mubaraq ho aapko holi ka tyohar, Humne dil se yeh paigam bheja hai. ”

- Unknown

“ Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time. ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no Salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam. ”

- Thomas Hood
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