591 Arabic Proverbs / Page 8
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Fire will burn itself out if it did not find anything to burn.142.
Fixing the known is better than waiting for the unknown.143.
Follows more than a shadow.144.
For every glance behind us, we have to look twice to the future.145.
For smart people, signs can replace words.146.
For the sake of the flowers, the weeds are watered.147.
Forget brotherhood, each goat will cost your seven dinars.148.
Forgetness is the plague of knowledge.149.
From you the money, from me the dance.150.
Further than Pleiades.151.
Get together like brother, and keep each other in check like strangers.152.
Give a man some cloth and he'll ask for some lining.153.
Give your friend your blood and money.154.
Gnats, in great number, can beat an elephant.155.
Go softly, come softly, so that the cat does not gore you.156.
God creates 40 people with the same looks.157.
God gives time but doesn't ignore.158.
God helps those who help themselves.159.
God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk.160.
God sends clothes to those with no proper figure, and bread to those with no teeth.