472 Arab Proverbs / Page 2
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A house divided cannot stand.22.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.23.
A kind word can attract even the snake from his nest.24.
A known mistake is better than an unknown truth.25.
A lazy man will be an astrologer.26.
A learned man without work is a cloud without rain.27.
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and rop makes an inundation.28.
A little bird wants but a little nest.29.
A little body doth often harbour a great soul.30.
A little debt makes a debtor, a great one an enemy.31.
A man cannot be a good physician if he has never been sick himself.32.
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.33.
A man who was always complaining was quite rightly sent to hell. "Why are you burning damp wood?" was his first comment.34.
A man's worth depends on his two smallest organs: his heart and his tongue.35.
A mouth that praises and a hand that kills.36.
A mule can go to Mecca, but it will not come back as a pilgrim.37.
A mule who goes in search of a fine set of antlers, will come back with his ears cut off.38.
A poor man would like to have some fun, but he cannot find the right place.39.
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is the rain.40.
A scholar's ink is worth as much as the blood of the martyr.