Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings. - William Rounseville Alger

An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;
A smile within his eyelids plays And into words his longing gushes.

The best aphorisms are pointed expressions of the results of observation, experience, and reflection. They are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.

Fill up the goblet and reach to me some!
Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.