Sam Elcot > Quotes

“If the cheese is present, I argue in its favour,’ explained Nasrudin, ‘and whenever somebody is absent it is slander as usual.”
― Sam Elcot, Immortal Tales of Mulla Nasrudin

“It is true that he has no eyes or limbs and you are fortunate to have all of them,’ agreed Nasrudin, ‘and yet you won’t earn half as much if you sit beside him and beg.”
― Sam Elcot, Immortal Tales of Mulla Nasrudin

“Nasrudin used to buy milk from the villagers, make curd and sell it to the townsfolk at a price less than the cost. Puzzled, everybody wanted to know why. ‘How can you say I buy milk dear and sell curd cheap?’ queried the Mulla, ‘I never bought any curd nor did I ever sell any milk.”
― Sam Elcot, Timeless Tales of Mulla Nasrudin

“the cat didn’t know that the fish knew that the cat was its enemy. The teacher didn’t know that the cat didn’t know that the fish knew that the cat didn’t know about the fish. But the fish didn’t know that the teacher didn’t know his Zen and that the cat didn’t know that the teacher didn’t know his Zen, and only the fish knew Zen but didn’t know that it knew Zen. So the fish laughed at the cat.”
― Sam Elcot, Ancient Tales from the Eternal East

“the preacher, the scholar or the Book is to be doubted?’ 25. The Local Sun Nasrudin was listening to two men as they continued with a street brawl one cloudy evening. ‘It is the sun that shines hot at this high noon,’ one of them insited ‘It is the cool moon that beams at this midnight,’ the other was in no mood to concede. ‘You appear to be a Mulla,’ they observed as Nasrudin approached, ‘lets us know whether it is moon during this noon or the sun at this midnight that lights up the world?’ Hoja immediately sized up the situation. ‘I am not sure,’ Nasrudin pointed out, ‘ You see, I am not from this part of the village.”
― Sam Elcot, Timeless Tales of Mulla Nasrudin