Laughing without a reason is rude.

More Arabic Proverbs

• 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.
• The stingy have large porches and little morality.
• You reap what you sow.
• No crowd ever waited at the gates of patience.
• The house of a tyrant is a ruin.
• Do not eat your bread on somebody else’s table. This means that you shouldn’t benefit off of someone else’s expense; as in, you shouldn’t dirty someone else’s table if you’re just going to be eating your bread.
• Avoid that which requires an apology.
• Unity is power.
• Few know how much we must know in order to know how little we know.
• Be patient and you’ll get what you want.
• Even if friend is honey, don’t lick them all up.
• Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
• Lack of intelligence is the greatest poverty.