Avoid things that will require an apology. This means if you want to do something that you know you’ll have to apologize for, you should probably just not do it!

More Arabic Proverbs

• The stupid might want to help you, but they just ended up hurting you.
• Wishing does not make a poor man rich.
• Everyone is critical of the flaws of others, but blind to their own.
• What is learned in youth is carved in stone.
• Be wary around your enemy once, and your friend a thousand times. A double crossing friend knows more about what harms you.
• Visit rarely, and you will be more loved.
• It’s better to avoid mistakes altogether than do something that you should apologize for after.
• Good health is a crown worn by the healthy that only the ill can see.
• Like a fish in water. Another way to say that someone is a natural.
• Be in the world, but not of the world.
• Think of the going out before you enter.
• Give your friends your money and your blood, but don’t justify yourself. Your enemies won’t believe it and your friends won’t need it.
• A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.
• There’s always tomorrow.
• You can’t clap with one hand.
• Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.
• The mouth should have three gatekeepers. Is it true? Is it kind? And is it necessary?
• Go with the lesser of two evils.
• Distance equals disaffection.
• Forgetting is the plague of knowledge.
• There is always something to learn from experimentation.
• Falseness lasts an hour, the truth lasts until the end of time.
• A tree begins with a seed.
• Arrogance is a weed that grows mostly on a dunghill.
• Believe what you see and lay aside what you hear.
• Good health is a crown worn by the healthy than only the ill can see.
• He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light.