Quotes from Arabic proverb

It is good to know the truth but it is better to speak of palm trees.

When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool.

He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.

Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid.

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food.

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

After dinner, rest after dinner walk a mile.

All sunshine makes a desert.

All sunshine makes the desert.

Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed man who is an oculist.

Ask not a man who his father was but make trial of his qualities, and then conciliate or reject him accordingly. For it is no disgrace to new wine, if only it be sweet, as to its taste, that it was the juice [or daughter] of sour grapes.

Ask the experienced rather than the learned.

Blessed is he who speaks a kindness thrice blessed is he who repeats it.

By six qualities may a fool be known: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without motive; inquiry, without an object; trust in a stranger; and incapacity to discriminate between friend and foe.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk.

Listen, if you would learn; be silent, if you would be safe.

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Never give advice in a crowd.

One common origin unites us all, but every sort of wood does not give the perfume of the lignum aloes.

Poverty without debt is independence.

Riches disclose in a man?s character the bad qualities formerly concealed in his poverty.

Sad are only those who understan.