Arabic proverbs
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Proverbs from all Arabic speaking parts of the world.
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- Any wise enemy is better than an ignorant friend.
- Quoted in Carol Bardenstein, Translation and Transformation in Modern Arabic Literature:The Indigenous Assertions of Muḥammad 'Uthmān Jalāl, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005, p. 66.
- Death will overtake you wherever you may be, even in high towers.
- Quran 4:78
- Quoted in Bardenstein (2005), p. 68
- The remedy may be worse than the disease.
- English equivalent: The remedy is often worse than the disease; Burn not your house to rid it off the mouse.
- Atmaram Sadashiv, G. Jayakar (1900). Omani proverbs (Reimpresa ed.). Oleander Press. p. 69. ISBN 0906672120.
- The one with no ears gets the earrings !
- Quoted in Bardenstein (2005), p. 66
- When suitors came asking for her hand, she played hard-to-get, when they all left her, she regretted it.
- Quoted in Bardenstein (2005), p. 66
