More Algerian Proverbs
- Your eye is the only way you can judge things.
- You know who your friend and your enemy are during difficult moments.
- When he was alive, he looked enviously at any dates. When he died, they hung a bunch for him.
- Speak kindly or refrain from talking.
- When I think of the others’s misfortunes, I forget mine.
- The only thing left in the wadi are its stones.
- A sensible enemy is better than a narrow-minded friend.
- When I think of the other’s misfortunes, I forget mine.
- Speak kindly or refrain you from talking.
- They only fall asleep after having mutually taken an oath and then they betray each other.
- One hand can’t applaud.
- Walls have ears.
- As we didn’t say a word, he thought he could do anything he liked.
- The hand which gives is better than the one which receives.
- Peace wins over wealth.
- There is an excess of familiarity at the root of all hostility.
- Cross the loud river but don’t cross the silent one.
- A believer can’t be spiteful.
- Cross the loud river but don’t cross the silent one.
- The soft tongue is sucked by the lioness.
- The one whose belly isn’t full of straw isn’t afraid of fire.
- The union of means triumphs over the lion.
- Do bad and remember, do good and forget.
- The crow wanted to mimic the pigeon’s walk and forgot his own.
- Who got it, did get it; and who left it, did regret it.
- A friend is someone who shares your happiness and your pains.
- Since we didn’t say anything, he thought he could do whatever he wanted to.