The dearest to me are those of best character.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Character
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
—Arabic Proverb
He that counts his friend’s mistakes will be abandoned by him.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Mistakes
Your friend will swallow your mistakes; your enemy will present them on a plate.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Enemies, Mistakes
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Giving, Helping, Proverbs, Heart, Sacrifice
A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Secrets, Proverbs
The cure for bad times is patience.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Bad Times
It may be a fire today—tomorrow it will be ashes.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Tomorrow
Better to have bread and an onion with peace than stuffed fowl with strife.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Peace
Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.
—Arabic Proverb
One coin in the money-box makes more noise than when it is full.
—Arabic Proverb
Silence is medication for sorrow.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Sorrow, Silence, Proverbs, Sadness
Silence is the interpreter of happiness.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Silence, Happiness
So long as the pot is boiling, friendship will stay warm.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Friendship
You won’t gain knowledge by drinking ink.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
When a rich man wants children, he gets dollars, when a poor man wants dollars, he gets children.
—Arabic Proverb
What is learned in youth is carved in stone.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Youth
God sells knowledge for labor—honor for risk.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
Ask for your wife’s advice and then do the opposite.
—Arabic Proverb
It’s all fate and chance.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Chance
Wrath begins in madness and ends in repentance.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Madness
Judge a man by the reputation of his enemies
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Reputation, Judgement, Proverbs
A tree that affords thee shade, do not order it to be cut down.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Nature
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Vice, Proverbs
How many opportunities present themselves to a man without his noticing them?
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Opportunity
Whoever knows how to use a pen never adds his own name to the “guilty” list.
—Arabic Proverb
Arrogance diminishes wisdom.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Wisdom
A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Foolishness, Speech, Fools, Proverbs
Greed lessens what is gathered.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Gratitude, Appreciation, Blessings
Every future is not far away.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Future