Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
Eat whatever you like, but dress as others do.
Every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper.
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.
The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.
He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth.
Knowledge acquired as a child is more lasting than an engraving on stone.
Only the tent pitched by your own hands will stand.
When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.
You are like a tree, giving your shade to the outside.
Prince Feisal: The English have a great hunger for desolate places. I fear they hunger for Arabia. T.E. Lawrence: Then you must deny it to them. Prince Feisal: You are an Englishman. Are you not loyal to England? T.E. Lawrence: To England and to othe...
The Saudi government uses a lot of British equipment to suppress their own people. But we're happy for our politicians to go on advertising trips to Saudi, selling our weapons at the trade conventions.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
Believe what you see and lay aside what you hear.
Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.
Give a man some cloth and he'll ask for some lining.
There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.
A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.
Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.
