POPULAR EMIRATI PROVERBS

■ A dry date cannot stick to another dry date.

■ A heart which is full of love, cannot get full of hatred.

■ A rotten fish rots all the other fish.

■ Be more cautious than a deer.

■ Discipline your son even if this angers his mother.

■ Do good deeds and cast them in the sea.

■ Do not assign work to an already busy man.

■ Do not squander even if you are scooping from the sea.

■ Each stick of firewood has smoke.

■ Keep accompanying happy people, and you will be happy.

■ Men are their actions not their words.

■ Never stop your trials, as one of them may hit success.

■ Wealth perishes but friendship lasts.