Sayings and Proverbs

If a person sees himself in his dream uttering a proverb or saying, then he should look for the occasion on which those words are usually said, and that is the interpretation of his dream. For example, a man dreamt that he was saying, "Perhaps what you intend to do will cause you trouble." I said: He is seeking a prominent position with the least possible means, because this saying may be applied to one who achieves a high position by very trivial means. And that is what happened. A man said: I dreamt that I was saying, "I thought I had found it, O you who disapprove." I said: This is something that women say when one of them finds a means to harm her co-wife or enemy, but then her plot backfires. The one who says this is trying to do some harm to his enemy but ends up harming himself. Another man said: I dreamt that I was saying, "Your hands did the tying and your mouth d id the blowing." This is said to someone who does something to save himself but falls short in doing it, and does not do it at the time of need. It originally refers to a Bedouin who blew up a skin and tied it in order to cross a river, but the rope around the vessel became undone and he drowned, then these words, "Your hands did the tying and your mouth did the blowing" were said.