129 Arabian Proverbs
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A book is a garden carried in the pocket.2.
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.3.
A book that remains shut, is but a block.4.
A friend is known when needed.5.
A kind word can attract even the snake from his nest.6.
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation.7.
A little bird wants but a little nest.8.
A little body doth often harbour a great soul.9.
A little debt makes a debtor, a great one an enemy.10.
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.11.
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.12.
A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life.13.
A thousand curses never tore a shirt.14.
A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog travelling with good men becomes a rational being.15.
A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.16.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are moveable, and those that move.17.
All strangers are relations to each other.18.
All sunshine makes a desert.19.
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.20.
Ask me what are my virtues, not about the color of my skin.