472 Arab Proverbs / Page 23
441. When the judge's mule dies, everyone goes to the funeral; when the judge himself dies, no one does.
442. When what you want doesn't happen, learn to want what does.
443. When you die, your sister's tears will dry as time goes on, your widow's tears will end in another's arms, but your mother will mourn you until the day she dies.
444. When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
445. When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.
446. When your enemies attack, bathe in their blood.
447. Where there are poor, there are rich. But where there is justice, they are all brothers.
448. Where there is a will there is a way. Where there is no will there is an excuse.
449. Who does not choose dies of hunger.
450. Who does not go with you, go with him.
451. Whoever knew you when you were small will not respect you when you're big.
452. Whoever knows how to use a pen never adds his own name to the "guilty" list.
453. Whoever lives within himself is burning with love.
454. Wisdom consists of ten parts -- nine parts of silence and one part with few words.
455. Wishing does not make a poor man rich.
456. Wit is folly unless a wise man hath the keeping of it.
457. Without the companionship even paradise would be boring.
458. Words from the heart reach the heart, words from the mouth reach the ear.
459. Wrath begins in madness and ends in repentance.
460. 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.