32 Syrian Proverbs / Page 3
- 21. Kiss any arm you cannot break, a and pray to God to break it.
- 22. Marry the girl of a good family though she be seated on a mat, very poor.
- 23. No one cries for losing money but the one who earned the money, no one cries for losing the child but his mother.
- 24. Stone dead hath no fellow.
- 25. The cloth of shame does not warm and if it does, it does so only briefly.
- 26. The land is cultivated by its own oxen.
- 27. The mouse fell from the ceiling, and the cat cried "Allah!".
- 28. The person who deals in camels should make the doors high.
- 29. The zawan of your own country is better than the wheat of strangers.
- 30. When you are dead, your sister's tears will dry as time goes on, your widow's tears will cease in another's arms, but your mother will mourn you until she dies.
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