Great Throughts Treasury

"He gets a double victory who conquers himself."

"He that knows little often repeats it."

"He is a good storyteller who can turn men's ears into eyes."

"He that has no silver in his purse should have silver on his tongue."

"He who houses a camel must make his door higher."

"He who drives an ass must, of necessity, know its wind."

"He who gives fair words feeds you with an empty spoon."

"He who is a mocker dances without a tambourine."

"He who rides a camel should not be afraid of dogs."

"He who sleeps in a marsh wakes up cousin to the frogs."

"Hearts are the depositories of secrets. Lips are their locks, and tongues are their keys."

"He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow."

"He who speaks the truth better have one foot in the stirrup."

"He who touches honey is compelled to lick his fingers."

"Hope is the last thing to die."

"Hot water is no playground for a frog."

"I only have my nails to scratch with and my feet to walk on."

"I won't tie up the mule in a horse's place, says the widow."

"However high the eye may rise it will find the eyebrow above it."

"If Fate throws a knife at you there are two ways of catching it: by the blade and by the handle."

"If a man puts a cord around his neck, God will provide someone to pull it."

"If I listen I have the advantage; if I speak, the others have it."

"If a man said to you, 'A dog carried away your ear' would you go after the dog or search first for your ear?"

"If God were not forgiving, heaven would be empty."

"If the prayers of dogs were answered, bones would rain from the sky."

"If heaven drops a date, open your mouth."

"If it is truth you wish to see, then hold no opinions for or against anything."

"If the King at noonday says it is night, behold the stars."

"If you are an anvil, you will suffer like an anvil. If you are a hammer, you will strike like a hammer."

"If you insist upon telling the truth you had better make it funny, or people will kill you."

"If you see him riding on a bamboo cane, say to him: 'Good health to your horse.'"

"If you make yourself honey, the flies will eat you."

"If your knees are knocking, kneel on them."

"In the desert, one forgets everything, one remembers nothing anymore."

"Ignorance is the night of the mind."

"If you open the eyes of a blind man he wants to go back to the darkness."

"In the far-off fields, the cabbages are fine."

"If you want to get honey, you have to be patient when bees start biting you."

"Into a closed mouth no fly can enter."

"Is the white camel made of fat?"

"It isn't every kind of wood a whistle can be made from."

"It is he who eats when he is full digs his grave with his teeth."

"It is no time to bow when the head is off."

"Kindness can pluck the hairs out of a lion's moustache."

"It is a brave bird that makes its nest in the cat's ear."

"It's easy to carry on war with a spyglass."

"Let us sit bent but talk straight."

"It's like trying to dunk a donut by grasping it by the ears."

"Knowledge is better than wealth: you have to look after wealth, knowledge looks after you."

"Life is like a perpetual drunkenness. The pleasure passes, but the headache remains."