I came to the place of my birth and cried, The friends of my youth, where are they? And echo answered, Where are they? – Arabic Proverb
Those who foretell the future lies, even if he tells the truth. – Arabic Proverb

I came to the place of my birth and cried, The friends of my youth, where are they? And echo answered, Where are they? – Arabic Proverb
Those who foretell the future lies, even if he tells the truth. – Arabic Proverb
I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors all of us against the foreigner. – Arabic Proverb
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,