Ahlan Arabic fans! How did you do in the last translation post about Mawaqif? Here is the English translation answers of the Arabic Translation Exercise: “Mawaqif” that was written by the Egyptian writer and journalist Anis Mansour أنــيــس مــَــنــْــصــُـــور who used to write daily articles for Al-Ahram newspaper; الأهـــرام /Al-Ahram/ under one title; “Situations مــَــوَاقــِــفْ /mawaqif/ and in which he discussed so many topics. In this article, Anis Mansour is talking about different life situations and is writing some jewels of wisdom in a highly literary style.
“Mawaqif” Anis Mansour via rapee3.com
“Mawaqif”
By Anis Mansour on July 15th 2011
- The prettiest things in life are: love, bread and freedom!
- Jealousy is born with love .. but it never dies with it!
- Love is rare .. friendship is even rarer!
- Happiness is: a word, a slice of bread and a kiss, too!
- True love is: to love the only person that can make you miserable!
- A woman threatens .. a woman surrenders!
- Happiness is: to get addicted to deceiving yourself by yourself!
- It is better for the husband to stay up all night than sleep with a ghost!
- I know you by the things you laugh at!
- Life is fake, so pretend to know that!
- Much of the lust is an illusion .. and much of the happiness is reality!
- The child is brought up by his mother .. the man by his wife!
- The crocodile cries when it sees man; it has found a bigger liar!
- What I have is nothing .. what others have is everything .. this is greed!
- You don’t know your heart until you fail in love!
- He, who catches the snake by its tail, is caught by the snake!
- The young man wants to be sincere in his love but he can’t .. the old man wants to betray but he can’t!
- A woman is a luxurious table of food with two pictures; one before eating, the other after eating!
- Pity opens a woman’s heart .. jealousy breaks it down!
- Marriage heals all the wounds a girl once had before!
- Whether a woman is very beautiful or very ugly, praise her intelligence!
- The beautiful woman is like a king; all people are hypocrite to!
- Respect the past and beware of the present if you want to have a future!
- Friendship, as well as believing in it, is rare!
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