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- If you are a peg, endure the knocking; if you are a mallet, strike.
- If you don’t understand it with a wink, you certainly will with a blow.
- If you see him riding on a bamboo-cane, say to him, “Good health to your horse!”
- In every false step there is something good.
- Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.
- It is better to be the object of jealousy, than of pity.
- It is worse to be wounded by words than a sword.
- Little by little, the camel goes into the couscous.
- Manage with bread and salted butter until God brings something to eat with it.
- Over truth there is light.
- Perform good deeds; you will not regret them.
- Reading books removes sorrows from the heart.
- Strong attachment is difficult — it makes one mad or kills.
- Teaching in youth is like carving in stone.
- The falcon does not struggle when he is caught.
- The hen lays an egg, and the cock feels the pain in his backside.
- The pumpkin gives birth and the fence has the trouble.
- The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
- The tar of my country is better than the honey of others.
- There is no queue at the gate of Patience.
- When my child and I have eaten — then clear the table.
- Whoever does not respect you, insults you.
- Work and you will be strong; sit and you will smell.
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- A lame man always speaks when it’s time to run.
- All fear has much imagination and little talent.
- Beggars can’t be choosers
- Better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission.
- Clean hands offend no one.
- Even the candle seller dies in the dark.
- He who overcomes his passions overcomes his greatest enemies.
- He who shows a passion tells his enemy where he may hit him.
- He, who gives away his belongings, slowly becomes a beggar.
- He, who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles.
- Instruction in youth is like engraving in stones.
- It’s better to be the pot than the lid.
- Poverty does not destroy virtue nor does wealth bestow it.
- See and believe, and in order not to make a mistake, touch.
- Suit the behavior to the occasion.
- Take the bull by the horns and the man at his word.
- The old dog barks while he is sitting down.
- The person who gives away his belongings will slowly become a beggar.
- The person who recognizes his major mistakes is on the road to wisdom.
- There is honor among thieves
- There is no better friend than a burden.
- To love and be wise is impossible.
- When force is imposed, the law is a joke.
- Where there are stones the brook babbles.
- Who is always sad, does not even have fun when drunk.
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- Away from the eye, away from the mind.
- Care now, be cared for later.
- Do good and throw it in the sea.
- Do good if you expect to receive it.
- Do not drink from a well and throw a stone into it.
- Do not drink poison to quench a thirst.
- Don’t just cross a river — cross it bearing fire.
- Every eye has its look.
- Every sheep is hung by its own leg.
- Far from grave, no praying.
- Go with the powerful and people will kneel before you.
- Hit the iron while it’s still hot.
- IF only I were a bird! Ah, but eating caterpillars?
- If you feed the mouth, the eye becomes shy.
- If you sit at a crossroads, you will get sick.
- Long ago did not live long ago.
- Nobody is perfect.
- Nobody will cut a head off except the one who put it on.
- Nobody will plough the land except its cows.
- Once deep pools, now a crossing place.
- One hand can’t clap.
- One thumb alone does not kill a louse.
- Only the soil knows when a young mouse is ill.
- Pride is the mask of our sins.
- Sell what you have bought while the dust is still on your shoes.
- The empty gives the way to the full.
- The eye cannot rise above the eyebrow.
- The eye is the one that eats.
- The eye of a master does more work than both his hands.
- The eye sees, but the hand can’t reach.
- The eye will often wander the road that love has taught.
- The heart is a tree; it grows where it wants.
- The house is our father’s and the strangers came to kick us out.
- The ignorant is his own enemy.
- The one who loves does not hate.
- There will be a day for the oppressor when he will be crushed like garlic.
- Those who dig an evil hole will fall into it.
- Too far for jackals? No worthwhile tree here!
- Whatever is written on the forehead is always seen.
- Whatever man had done, man may do.
- Where there is abundance, there is poverty.
- Who has no past, has no future.
- You only hear three voices in this world: the babbling of the stream, Jewish law, and money.
- You will not dare mistreating the face you see in the morning.
- Your close neighbor is better than your faraway brother.
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- A bad neighbor will give you a needle with no thread.
- A busy mother makes slothful daughters.
- A contented ass enjoys a long life.
- A rich widow weeps in one eye and laughs with the other.
- A woman with two husbands cheats both.
- An old man in love is like a flower in winter.
- Be sure not to owe anything to the rich, and don’t lend anything to the poor.
- Beauty is a good letter of introduction.
- Better a red face than a black heart.
- Better to be queen for an hour than a countess for life.
- Beware of a man that does not talk and a dog that does not bark.
- Beware of silent dogs and still waters.
- Beware of the door with too many keys.
- Change yourself, and your luck will change.
- Change yourself, change your fortunes.
- Death makes us equal in the grave but not in eternity.
- Do good and care not to whom.
- Do not tell all that you know, don’t believe all you hear, and don’t do all that you can.
- Don’t leave the main road for a shortcut.
- Don’t put money in your purse without checking it for holes.
- Every peddler praises his own needles.
- Faith has no eyes; he who asks to see has no faith.
- Give a grateful man more than he asks for.
- Give me money, not advice.
- Good management is better than good income.
- He who has nothing is afraid of nothing.
- He who serves two masters has to lie to one.
- Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities.
- Hell’s roof is made from lost causes.
- If a poor man gives to you, he expects more in return.
- If you give orders and leave, the work won’t get done.
- If you have a friend who is a doctor, then send him to your enemy’s house.
- If you would make an enemy, lend a man money, and ask for it back again.
- It is better to receive awards that you don’t deserve rather than deserve them and not receive them.
- Keep your sickness until Friday and don’t fast.
- Live to live and you will learn to live.
- Love has no law.
- Meowing cats catch fewer mice.
- Mouth from honey, heart of gall.
- No one is a good judge of his own case.
- No one is poor but he who thinks himself so.
- Not much is achieved where everyone gives the orders.
- One good word puts out the flames better than a bucket of water.
- Peace with a club in hand is war.
- Pretend to be dead and the bull will leave you alone.
- Stumbling is not falling.
- Sweet are the tears that are dried by your loved one.
- Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
- The accomplice is as bad as the thief.
- The chicken that stays in the farmyard, will peck the crumbs.
- The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread.
- The gentle calf sucks all the cows.
- The mistress is queen, the wife is the slave.
- The queen bee has no sting.
- There are many ways to leave this world but only one way to come into it.
- There is a remedy for everything; it is called death.
- There’s no catching trout with dry breeches.
- There’s no handsome woman on the wedding day, except the bride.
- There’s no living without friends.
- Think of many things — do one.
- Thinking of where you are going, you forget from whence you came.
- Third time pays for all.
- Though we are negroes, we are men, and have souls.
- Time and the hour are not to be tied with a rope.
- Time, not medicine, cures the sick.
- Times passes like the wind.
- To give is honour, to beg is dishonour.
- To love and be wise is incompatible.
- To promise much means giving little.
- Too many candles will burn down the church.
- Truth and oil come to the surface.
- Truth should not be dressed up.
- Visits always give pleasure — if not the arrival, the departure.
- We have not saddled and yet we are riding.
- What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
- What is marriage, mother? Daughter, it is spinning, bearing children, and weeping.
- What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.
- What’s everybody’s work is nobody’s work.
- Where there is life there is hope.
- Where there is no might, right gets lost.
- Where there’s no fire there’s no smoke
- Where you tell your secret you surrender your freedom.
- who will not when he can, can’t when he will.
- Wind and fortune are not lasting.
- Woman, wind, and luck soon change.
- Women and glass are always in danger.
- Women are always better the following year.
- Work done expects money.
- You can’t make horn of a pig’s tail.
- You have to suffer a lot or die young.
- You may keep yourself safe from fire, but not from a bad man.
- You will not see many with green eyes.
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