Arabian Proverbs

A black man is a jewel in a fair women’s eye.

A carefree head is to be found only on a scare crow.

Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public.

A foll may be known by six things: ager without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, enquiry without objective, putting trust in a stranger and mistaking foes for friends.

Always speak the truth and you’ll never be concerned with your memory.

Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us.

Be sure always that your head is not higher than your hat.

Better sit still than rise up and fall.

Blessed is the man who knows his power, yet refrains from injuring others.

Cowards die many a death, but the brave only once.

Curiosity is ill manner in another’s house.

Do not show your teeth if you cannot bite.

Every land is his native land to a brave man.

Every man’s life is a fairy-tale written by God’s fingers.

Good to forgive, best to forget.

God heals and the doctor takes the fee.

Happiness is never perfect until it is shared.

He is a good physician who cures himself.

Have patience with a friend rather than lose him forever.

He that knows not and knows not that he knows not is a big fool.

He that knows and knows not that he knows is nothing.

He that knows not and knows that he knos not is simple, teach him.

He that steal an egg will also steal an ox.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.

He that serves everybody is paid by nobody.

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

He who laughs least, laughs best.

Hunger breaks through the stone walls.

I cannot by your friend and your flatterer at the same time.

If you spend more than you earn, you cannot escape misery.

Let them obey that know not how to rule.

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Matty first and love will follow.

Nothing is given so freely as advice.

Repentance is good, but innocence is better.

Secrets are never long-lived.

The first day the man is a guest, the secod a burdeb, the third a pest.

The way to be happy is to make others happy.

There is a remedy for everything but death.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Wealth shines when the rich are humble and kind.

When a man dies, the last thing that dies is his heart; in a women her tongue.

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

You don’t have to explain what you don’t say.

Youth is a garland of roses, age is a crown of thorns.