Literal Proverbs

Literal meaning: Save your white penny for your black day. (Arabic Proverb)
Literal meaning: The people's lord is their servant. View proverb
Arabic Proverb
Literal meaning: The sultan's sword is long. View proverb
Arabic Proverb
Literal meaning: The gauge has overflown. View proverb
Arabic Proverb
Literal meaning: Give me long life and throw me in the sea. View proverb
Arabic Proverb
Literal meaning: The fisherman is the shark's friend. View proverb
Arabic Proverb
Literal meaning: The friend in tight times. View proverb
Arabic Proverb
Literal meaning: Cooking fat on honey. View proverb
Arabic Proverb
Literal meaning: He left the party without having Hommos. View proverb
Arabic Proverb
Literal meaning: Give the dough to baker even if he eats half of it. View proverb
Arabic Proverb
Seize the day." By Horace, Odes I,11,8, to Leuconoe: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero ("take hold of the day, believing as little as possible in the next"). The verb "carpere" has the literal meaning "to pick, pluck," particularly in reference to the picking of fruits and flowers, and was used figuratively by the Roman poets to mean "to enjoy, use, make use of. (Latin Proverb)
Literal tranlation: A lot of noise, little wool. View proverb
Latin Proverb