It may be a fire today—tomorrow it will be ashes.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Tomorrow
Wisdom consists of ten parts—nine parts of silence and one part with few words.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Silence
He fled from the rain and sat down under the waterspout.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Rain
To the pure, all things are pure.
—Arabic Proverb
Better to have bread and an onion with peace than stuffed fowl with strife.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Peace
A friend is known when needed.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Friendship, Friends
Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Pregnancy
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Desire
Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Victory
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Man, Class, Proverbs
Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Opinions, Proverbs
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is the rain.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Rain, Promises, Action
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Brothers, Business, Togetherness
I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors all of us against the foreigner.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Fighting, Fight, Quarrels, Brothers
Search knowledge though it be in China.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Dying, Heart, Death
If you have given away much of your wealth, then you have given a little of your heart.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Heart
Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.
—Arabic Proverb
When the angels present themselves, the devils abscond.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Angels
I hear noise but see no grinding.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: World
The horse is God’s gift to mankind.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Horses
Who works achieves and who sows reaps.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Achievements
Ask for your wife’s advice and then do the opposite.
—Arabic Proverb
Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
—Arabic Proverb
The worst things in life are: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Charity
The dearest to me are those of best character.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Character
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Awareness, Hope, Realism, Health
If you want to take revenge on a man, send him a really beautiful woman.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Revenge
Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.
—Arabic Proverb
Topics: Marriage
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