Speak kindly or refrain you from talking.

More Algerian Proverbs

• Friendship, we call it friendship, but without sincerity.
• A secret for two, soon a secret for nobody.
• 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.