- A back does not break from bending.
- A beautiful thing is never perfect.
- A borrowed coat does not keep one warm.
- A man’s ruin lies in his tongue.
- A man with two ears can be supported by two words.
- An onion shared with a friend tastes like roast lamb.
- A person with a wound on his head keeps touching it.
- A small house can lodge a hundred friends.
- Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.
- Bed is the poor man’s opera.
- Believe the liar up to the door of his house and no further than that.
- Be patient with a bad neighbor: he may move or face misfortune.
- Better half a donkey than half a camel.
- Cover up the good you do — do like the Nile and conceal your sources.
- Everything is formed by habit, even praying.
- False ambition serves the neck.
- Follow the saint no further than his doorstep.
- For the benefit of the flowers, we water the thorns, too.
- Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
- He who chatters with you will chatter about you.
- He who has a back is not beaten on the belly.
- He who knows not shame does whatever he likes.
- I am talking to you, daughter-in-law, so that you could hear it, neighbor!
- If there were no fault, there would be no pardon.
- If there were no wrongdoing, there would be no forgiveness.
- If you love, love the moon; if you steal, steal a camel.
- In his own nest a beetle is a sultan.
- Learn politeness from the impolite.
- Love and let the world know, hate in silence.
- Making money selling manure is better than losing money selling musk.
- Malice drink its own poison.
- Money is sweet balm.
- More precious than our children are the children of our children.
- Old countries don’t disappear overnight; they stay for breakfast.
- One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights.
- Pass by your enemy hungry but never naked.
- Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone.
- Pride feels no pain.
- Pride goes before a fall.
- Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
- Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along.
- Put a stout heart to a stey brae.
- Put by for a rainy day.
- Rather a piece of bread with a happy heart than wealth with grief.
- Run as hard as a wild beast if you will, but you won’t get any reward greater than that destined for you.
- Silence is more than just a lack of words.
- Silence is the best answer to the stupid.
- The barking of a dog does not disturb the man on a camel.
- The day cuts off the promise of the night.
- The glow soon becomes ashes.
- The heart of a servant that is not beaten is full of curses.
- The idiot who has his eye on your wife is like a blood sucking fly.
- The miser destroys what he collected.
- The tears of the adulteress are ever ready to be shed.
- The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.
- The woman who does not covet the possessions of her husband is in love with another man.
- When a slave mounts a camel he wants to ride on both humps.
- When a whore repents she becomes a matchmaker.
- When a woman is not singing, she is not working much either.
- When the angels appear, the devils run away.
- When the angels present themselves, the devils abscond.
- Whoever is ashamed to sleep with his wife will never have children.
- Whoever lets himself be led by the heart will never lose his way.
- Yesterday’s drunkenness will not quench today’s thirst.
- Your friend chooses pebbles for you and your enemy counts your faults.
- Youth is beauty, even in cattle.
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