472 Arab Proverbs / Page 8
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Give a man some cloth and he'll ask for some lining.142.
Give me wool and tomorrow you will have a sheep.143.
Go and wake up your cook.144.
God bless him who pays visits -- short visits.145.
God gave the giraffe a long neck so that He would not have to bend the palm tree.146.
God grant us no neighbor with two eyes.147.
God has spared the naked man from washing his clothes with soap.148.
God sells knowledge for labor -- honor for risk.149.
Good deeds banish bad ones.150.
Good qualities never cancel out the bad, just as sugar is no antidote for poison.151.
Great care is no defense against Fate.152.
Habit is the sixth sense that dominates the other five.153.
Haste is the invention of the devil.154.
He fasted for a whole year and then broke his fast with an onion.155.
He fled from the rain and sat down under the waterspout.156.
He gets his passage for nothing and then winks at the captain's wife.157.
He hit me, started to cry, and went straight to the judge to sue me.158.
He left us and we rejoiced; then an even more unbearable person came.159.
He promised me earrings, but then only pierced my ears.160.
He that counts his friend's mistakes will be abandoned by him.