Arabian proverbs

Don't pride over your wealth or beauty, one will be gone in a night and the other with a fever.

There are five ways in which to become wise: be silent, listen, remember, grow older and study.

Two scorpions living in the same hole will get along better than two sisters in the same house.

Throw a resourceful person into a river, and he will probably come out with a fish in his hand.

O! my sister Your son is like how you raised him. And your husband is like how you trained him.

Translation: Give the job to a person who knows how to perform it best even if it will cost you.

He makes a dome out of a grain. Meaning: He worries about a small problem as if it is a big one.

When a rich man wants children, he gets dollars, when a poor man wants dollars, he gets children.

Know each other as if your were brothers; negotiate deals as if you were strangers to each other.

In the desert of life the wise person travels by caravan, while the fool prefers to travel alone.

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