Arabian proverbs

While the word is yet unspoken, you are master of it; when once it is spoken, it is master of you.

One is better off seated than standing. lying than seated, asleep than awake, and dead than alive.

When the judge's mule dies, everyone goes to the funeral; when the judge himself dies, no one does.

Ask for a science that would be useful to you, would keep you from harm and shame, then elevate you.

The words of the elderly are as sweet as honey, but if you do not listen they become as sour as bile.

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain; and the best promise is that which has been proved by rain.

Be generous to a generous person and you'd win him, be generous to a mean person and he'd rebel on you.

Today is wine, and tomorrow is an assignment. Today we will drink wine, and tomorrow we will work hard.

The best place in the world is on the back of a horse, and the best thing to do in time is to read a book.

If there's no choice but advice, ask for the decisiveness of an advisor or the advice of a decisive person.

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