The best-known Arabic proverbs and their meaning
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Patience is the key to relief · The dogs bark and the caravan moves on · Time is like a sword: if you don't cut it, it cuts you. (Updated Jan 23, 2024.)
Arabic proverbs used across the Arab world, with what each one means. Chosen from the «Arabic proverbs» collection on Arabic Wikiquote.
Automatically translated (original in العربية). See the original
Top 12
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Patience is the key to relief
Patience gets you through hard times.
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The dogs bark and the caravan moves on
Ignore the critics and carry on.
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Time is like a sword: if you don't cut it, it cuts you
Use your time or you'll lose it.
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4
The sword has outrun the blame
It's too late for regrets once it's done.
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5
Birds land with their own kind
Birds of a feather flock together.
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6
In summer you wasted the milk
Said to someone who threw away a chance and now wants it back.
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7
In his mother's eyes, the monkey is a gazelle
Every mother thinks her child is the most beautiful.
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The believer is not stung from the same hole twice
A wise person doesn't make the same mistake twice.
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9
Pleasing everyone is a goal that can't be reached
You can't please everybody.
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10
If you want to be obeyed, ask for what is possible
Don't ask people for more than they can do.
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11
Nothing scratches your skin like your own nail
No one looks after your affairs like you do.
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12
The winds blow where the ships do not wish
Things don't always go as we want. Originally half a verse by al-Mutanabbi.
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