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Resources => Other Cultures [Public] => Topic started by: Jennifer- on May 27, 2008, 08:41:31 PM
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A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.
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A known mistake is better than an unknown truth.
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A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life.
Source: (Arabic)
A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being.
Source: (Arabic)
Arrogance diminishes wisdom.
Source: (Arabic)
At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend.
Source: (Arabic)
He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light.
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Many are the roads that do not lead to the heart.
Source: (Arabic)
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Only the tent pitched by your own hands will stand.
Source: (Arabic)
Only three things in life are certain birth, death and change.
Source: (Arabic)
Seek counsel of him who makes you weep, and not of him who makes you laugh.
Source: (Arabic)
The dogs may bark but the caravan moves on.
Source: (Arabic)
The fruit of silence is tranquility.
Source: (Arabic)
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
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The mind is for seeing, the heart is for hearing.
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The one-eyed person is a beauty in the country of the blind.
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When what you want doesn't happen, learn to want what does.
Source: (Arabic)
Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
Source: (Arabic)
You are like a tree, giving your shade to the outside.
Source: (Arabic)
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An intelligent deaf-mute is better than an ignorant person who can speak.
A man with one plan (lit. intention) goes out (to execute it); a man with two plans becomes perplexed.
Tire out your body, but not your mind.
A book is a garden carried in the pocket.
Source: (Arabian)
A little body doth often harbour a great soul.
Source: (Arabian)
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
Source: (Arabian)
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are moveable, and those that move.
Source: (Arabian)
Death is a black camel that lies down at every door. Sooner or later you must ride the camel.
Source: (Arabian)
Death is a black camel which kneels at every man's gate.
Source: (Arabian)
Diligence is a great teacher.
Source: (Arabian)
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
Source: (Arabian)
If you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end.
Source: (Arabian)
Knowledge acquired as a child is more lasting than an engraving on stone.
Source: (Arabian)
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Source: (Arabian)
No man is a good physician who has never been sick.
Source: (Arabian)