Great Throughts Treasury

"Search yourself and you will find God."

"Fire is good, but ashes are also produced from it."

"To struggle is life and life is a struggle."

"The pain of a dagger is easy, the pain of a heart is heavy."

"A hungry stomach has no ears."

"Our language is our existence."

"A wise man does his own work."

"Whatever the heart thinks, the mouth will speak."

"A thousand friends are too few; one enemy is one too many."

"Freedom is never given but taken."

"Habit is worse than rabies."

"Habit becomes second nature."

"Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once."

"No matter where you go, your destiny follows you."

"See with your mind; hear with your heart."

"To speak is to sow; to listen is to reap."

"Work as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow."

"A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship."

"A fool dreams of wealth, a wise man, of happiness."

"A camel is not an animal and an Arab is not a human being."

"A girl without a mother is like a mountain with no paths; a girl without a father is like a mountain with no streams."

"A good companion shortens the longest road."

"A heart in love with beauty never grows old."

"A hero could be a woman or a man."

"A home without guests, a village without shepherds, both are hopeless indeed."

"A hundred men can sit together quietly but when two dogs get together there will be a fight."

"A kind word warms a man through three winters."

"A lion is a lion, whether male or female."

"A man is as wise as his head, not his years."

"A knife-wound heals, but a tongue-wound festers."

"A visitor comes with ten blessings, eats one, and leaves nine."

"A neighbor's hen looks as big as a goose, and his wife as young as a girl."

"A man is judged by his work."

"A red apple invites stones."

"A small key opens big doors."

"A thief not caught becomes a king."

"A shy woman is worth a city, a shy man is worth a goat"

"A tribulation is better than a hundred warnings."

"A threat does not lengthen your sword."

"Activity breeds prosperity."

"After dinner a Kuru kills a man or kidnaps a woman."

"A woman is a fortress, a man her prisoner."

"A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them."

"An illness comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce."

"At table keep short hand; in company keep a short tongue."

"Bad habits are worse than rabies."

"Any man with two wives becomes a porter."

"Ability has no school."

"An open door invites callers."

"Beauty passes; wisdom remains."