Comfortable Is He Who Doesn’t Have
Comfortable is he who doesn’t have a donkey — doesn’t know of its straw and barley.
Comfortable is he who doesn’t have a donkey — doesn’t know of its straw and barley.
By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair.
Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog, and a quarrelsome person.
Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
Courtesy on one side can never last long.
Courtesie is cumbersome to them that ken it not.
First prove your brotherhood, then claim inheritance.
God gives to us according to the measure of our hearts.
Forgiveness hides a pleasure that you can’t get back from revenge.
For his master the dog is a lion.
God provides, but he needs a nudge.
In the hour of adversity be not without hope for crystal rain falls from black clouds.
Every fault that a sultan pleases can be a quality.
Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you’ll see further.
Great needs grow from great possessions.
Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
From truth to falsehood there’s a four-finger distance.
From this column to that column may be a relief.
Doubt makes the mountain which faith can move.
Draw not thy bow before thy arrow be fixed.