472 Arab Proverbs / Page 19
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The fruit of silence is tranquility.362.
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.363.
The frying-pan says to the kettle, "Avaunt, black brows!"364.
The grave is our mother.365.
The greatest tranquility is when we desire nothing.366.
The hand of God is with the group.367.
The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry.368.
The hasty angler loses the fish.369.
The hasty hand catches frogs for fish.370.
The house of danger is built upon the borders of safety.371.
The ink of a scholar is worth as much as the martyr's blood.372.
The knife of the family does not cut.373.
The liar's mother is a virgin.374.
The lion said: I am the best one to take care of my business.375.
The man with no patience waits for daylight, and when it comes he'll be blind.376.
The men are the wool of the tribe, but the women are the ones who weave the pattern.377.
The mind is for seeing, the heart is for hearing.378.
The monkey looks into the mirror and sees a gazelle.379.
The most useful holy war is the one fought against your own passions.380.
The mother of someone who is killed can sleep; the mother of the murderer cannot.