Great Throughts Treasury

"One does not give a gift without a motive."

"If you travel with donkeys for many years, you won’t be able to speak like a donkey, but you will know all their paths."

"When the donkey dies, the farting will stop."

"A man is what he thinks."

"A canoe does not know who the leader is; when it turns over, everyone gets wet."

"A leader is a donkey for others to ride."

"A deaf man may not have heard the thunder but he surely will see the rain."

"A piece of wood can sit in the water many years, but it won?t become a crocodile."

"A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace."

"A village without a leader is destroyed by a single enemy."

"A woman who offers sex to everyone will get kicked by everyone."

"A turtle is not proud of his long neck."

"If you've nothing to do, dig a spinster's grave."

"It is from a tiny seed that the biggest tree was born."

"May God reward you with long life."

"One finger can?t pick up anything."

"Life is like a ballet performance -- danced only once."

"May Allah cool his resting place."

"The hyena chasing two antelopes at the same time will go to bed hungry."

"Slowly but surely the excrement of foreign poets will come to your village."

"When mosquitoes work, they bite and then they sing."

"The bee forced into a beehive will not make any honey."

"You cannot wage war without the sound of gunpowder."

"You must decide where you are going in the evening, if you intend to leave early in the morning."

"When the slave-trader preaches the Koran, it?s time to watch over one?s daughters."

"You will never drown where you always take a bath."