Egyptian Proverbs and Sayings
34 Egyptian sayings collected from Egypt — 7 proverbs, 27 quotes.
About Egyptian sayings here
This page collects every saying in the archive recorded as coming from Egypt: 7 proverbs, 27 quotes. None of them carries a written explanation yet — the meanings are being written over time.
The named voices here are Naguib Mahfouz (23), Huda Shaarawi (3) and Gamal Abdel Nasser (1). The proverbs are left unattributed, because a proverb belongs to the people who repeat it rather than to whoever first said it.
The subjects they return to most often are Religion, Literature, Hard Work and Art.
A few from this collection:
- A beautiful thing is never perfect.
- Believe the liar up to the door of his house and no further than that.
- An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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