"Khalif" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of yore and in ages and times long gone before, in the city of Baghdad, a fisherman, by name Khalif, a man of muckle talk and little luck. One day, as he sat in his cell,[FN263] he bethought himself and said, "There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great! Would Heaven I knew what is my offence ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton |
