Excerpt for Arab Quotes by Wissam Saleh, available in its entirety at Smashwords

Advice



  • Leave evil, it will leave you..

  • Beware of the level-headed when he is angry

  • Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.

  • Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.

  • An advice to somebody in public, is a scandal

  • Follow the advice of the one who makes you cry, not from the one who makes you laugh

  • Don’t be too solid to be broken, or too flexible to be bent.

  • If you hear a person talking good about things that aren't in you, don't be sure that he wouldn't also say bad things that aren't in you

  • Two swords do not fit in one sheath.

  • Give the dough to baker even if he eats half of it. Idiomatic meaning: Give the job to a person who knows how to perform it best even if it will cost you much.

  • Fixing what you have is better than waiting what you don’t have

  • If you want to live after you die, write something worth reading

  • Get the wisdom from the crazy peoples’ words.

  • Oppose your affection to find rationality

  • The secret to success is to walk forward

  • Beware the man who has received charity from you

  • Beware of he whose goodness you can't ask for and whose evil you can't be protected from.

  • If you can't reward then you should thank.

  • Don’t fight the man who does what he says

  • When in Rome do as the Romans do.

  • The one who should be forgiven, is the one who's able to punish.

  • The hardest the problem is the closer it is to be solved.

  • Thank who gives you and give who thanks you.

  • If you reach for the highest of ideals, you shouldn't settle for less than the stars

  • If you have an opinion, be determined, the only faulty opinion is to hesitate.

  • If there's no choice but advice, ask for the decisiveness of an advisor or the advice of a decisive person.

  • Live together like brothers and do business like strangers

  • 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

  • Better to avoid the poison altogether than to try to heal from the damage it causes

  • If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is not truthful and helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time.

  • When what you want doesn't happen, learn to want what does

  • Follow the advice of those who make you cry, never of those who make you laugh

  • Ask the ignorant for advice and he will think you are his enemy

  • Beware: some liars tell the truth.

  • Do not stand in a dangerous place trusting in miracles

  • Fear not the man who fears God

  • Great care is no defense against Fate

  • Love makes a man both blind and deaf.

  • The crown of good disposition is humility

  • The efforts of the poor are his tears. Meaning: The poor can only weep for the misfortunes of others, but are not able to alleviate them; this is a frequent apology for withholding assistance.

  • Choose your neighbor before your house and your companion before the road

  • Do not stand in a dangerous place trusting in miracles



Weapons



  • Time is like a sword. If you did not cut it, it will cut you.

  • The one without a sword gets humiliated.

  • The sultan's sword is long

  • Metaphorical meaning: Characterizes the power of the Sultan (Sultan is another name for king in Arabic) .

  • Even a courageous man might feel fear without a weapon.

  • The wound of words is worse than the wound of swords.

  • The rope man got mixed with the archer. Metaphorical Meaning: Things got chaotic.

Women



  • A woman can hide her love for Men years, but her disgust and anger not for one day.

  • Even a one eyed guy will wink at a beautiful woman

  • A woman's belly is a garden with many kinds of fruit

  • Metaphorical meaning: Said referring to the huge differences between brothers, they are from the same mother but each one is very unique.

  • A woman's mosque is her home

  • Ask for your wife's advice and then do the opposite

  • Ask for your wife's advice and then do the opposite

  • If a wife is unfaithful then the husband is partly to blame

  • If you want to hit your mother-in-law, be sure to split her head

  • If you want to take revenge on a man, send him a really beautiful woman

  • A paradise in which hogs feed (Said of a beautiful woman whose husband is ugly).

  • The tears of the adulteress are ever ready.

  • Paradise can be found on the back of horses, in books and between the breasts of women

  • It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves

  • Choosing a woman is like a war, one slight mistake causes destruction


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