Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness.
In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.
When your neighbor’s wall breaks, your own is in danger.
A man’s will can be his paradise, but it can also be his hell.
Pissing in your shoes won’t keep your feet warm for very long
A sitting crow starves.
The baby has not been born yet, and yet you assert that his nose is like his grandfather’s!
When a crow is killed by a storm, the fortuneteller says, “He died by my curse.”
Even if fed milk, a snake will still emit poison.
Pearls are worthless in the desert.
Nothing is difficult when you get used to it.
Most people don’t announce their faults with a gong.
It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning.
The night hides a world, but reveals a universe.
Solved riddles look easy.
Necessity can change a lion into a fox.
The way a house is decorated will tell much about its owner.
Don’t just take love—experience it.
Every man is king of his own beard.
You can close the city gates, but you can’t close the people’s mouths.
A timely tear is better than a misplaced smile.
A sword in the hands of a drunken slave is less dangerous than science in the hands of the unscrupulous.
Only a heart can find the way to another heart.
A wise man can laugh at his jokes.
The elephant dreams of one thing, and the elephant driver dreams of another.
The fox uses his tale as a witness.
The person who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
A camel that wants fodder stretches out its neck.
Injustice all around is justice!
I used to complain because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.
I used to complain because I had no shoes until I met a man who was dead.
A quality statement often gets no answer.
A greedy man is always poor.
A single rose does not mean that it is spring.
A drowning man is not bothered by rain.
Curiosity is the key to knowledge.
Marriage is an uncut watermelon.
The joy of finding something is often worth more than what is found.
All authors should prepare to encounter criticism.
Sometimes you must sacrifice your beard in order to save your head.
A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures in the doctor’s book.
No time for your health today, no health for your time tomorrow.
The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, but not that he is a thief.
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children make a home.
Every eye forms its own fancy.
He is bad that will not take advice, but he is a thousand times worse that takes every advice.
The greatest and supreme science among sciences is the study that frees man from all kinds of miseries.
Of future and contingent matters, we can have no definite knowledge.
It is easier to threaten than to kill.
He that will not strive in this world should not have come into it.
Sometimes it’s better to give your apple, than eat it yoursself.
There are some who despise pride with greater pride.
He who offends writes on sand, he who is offended on marble.
Live and let live.
Who knows most believes least.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Not every question deserves an answer.
Better once than never.
All the brains are not in one head.
If a fox is preaching, beware of your geese.
Good is good, but better beats it.
The person who enjoys good health is rich, even if he doesn’t know it.
Beware of the person with nothing to lose.
As soon as a new law is made, a way around it is devised.
Experience runs a valuable school, but fools learn in no other.
If you dig a pit for others, you might fall into it yourself!
The remedy is often worse than the disease.
Necessity is a great teacher.
Yes and no rule the world.
To the person who watches, everything reveals itself.
The sun passes over filth and is not dirtied.
I might have lost my ring, but I still have my fingers!
Better untaught than ill taught.
Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.
Sometimes it’s better to give your apple away than to eat it yourself.
It’s no time to play chess when the house is on fire.
A bow that is bent too far will break.
Preventing someone from falling is better than helping him get up.
If you stumble more than once over the same stump, you have no one to blame but yourself.