In his little book The Prophet, Arab philosopher Kahlil Gibran describes people worried about tomorrow as guarding their possessions like an over-prudent dog burying bones in the trackless sand.
阿拉伯哲學家紀伯倫在《先知》這本小書中，形容人們因憂慮明天而保守財產，猶如一隻過分謹慎的狗，將骨頭埋在無痕跡的沙地裡。