472 Arab Proverbs / Page 15
- 141. Give a man some cloth and he'll ask for some lining.
 - 142. Give me wool and tomorrow you will have a sheep.
 - 143. Go and wake up your cook.
 - 144. God bless him who pays visits -- short visits.
 - 145. God gave the giraffe a long neck so that He would not have to bend the palm tree.
 - 146. God grant us no neighbor with two eyes.
 - 147. God has spared the naked man from washing his clothes with soap.
 - 148. God sells knowledge for labor -- honor for risk.
 - 149. Good deeds banish bad ones.
 - 150. Good qualities never cancel out the bad, just as sugar is no antidote for poison.

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