Turkish Proverbs (425 Proverbs)
- The mouth is not sweetened by saying "Honey, honey." So the music, so the people.
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- Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood.
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- Listen with both ears, but speak with only one tongue.
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- If a cat wants to eat her kittens, she'll say that they look like mice.
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- He that speaks truth must have one foot in the stirrup.
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- Everything is worn out with usage -- except for experience.
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- To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so.
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- The most difficult master is the servant who became master.
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- Out of ten men there are nine wives.
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- Keep the tongue in your mouth a prisoner.
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- Idle men tempt the devil; the devil tempts all others.
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- He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper.
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- To beg of the miser is to dig a trench in the sea.
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- The horse can die from too much barley.
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- Others are always interested in us, just as we are interested in them.
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- It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.
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- I know nothing about it, I haven't seen it; that is the best answer.
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- He that fears you present will hate you absent.
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- To a good rider, right or left makes no difference.
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- The highway is always shorter than the unknown side roads.
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- One night with an ugly woman and one day in the mountains both are like an eternity.
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- In the company of the blind, close your eyes.
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- Honey is one thing, the price is another.
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- He that fears danger in time seldom feels it.
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- Things that are weak will break -- as men do who think they are strong.
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- The gardener who loves roses is slave to a thousand thorns.
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- One must ask about the delight of opium from one who smokes it.
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- In our eyes the neighbor's chicken is a goose.
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- Heaven was inspired by the first judge to take a bribe.
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- He that falls to-day may be up again to-morrow.
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- There isn't a sword that would cut off a golden hand.
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- The foot of a lamp is always the least lit.
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- One hour of justice is worth seventy hours of prayer.
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- If your guest becomes a cook, your larder will soon be empty.
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- He who wants to kill a dog says that he has urinated against the mosque.
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- He that considers in prosperity; will be less afflicted in adversity.
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- When violence comes into the house, law and justice leave through the chimney.
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- Your five year old son is your instructor; at ten your slave; at fifteen your equal and after that either friend or foe.
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- When it sees money, the flute will play itself.
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- You don't wash blood away with blood but with water.
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- When God wants to please a poor man, He lets him lose his donkey and then helps him find it again.
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- You don't have to know much to read, but you do to cook.
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- When a rich man falls they say it was an accident; when a poor man falls they say that he was drunk.
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- You cannot get into Paradise without a guide.
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- What a man suffers is the punishment of his tongue.
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- You cannot forge a good sword from bad iron.
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- Vinegar that is too sour even taints the glass it's kept in.
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- You can proclaim the truth also in a friendly way.
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- Vinegar that costs nothing is sweeter than honey.
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- Wine that isn't paid for is drunk twice.
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- Who kisses the feet of his mother, kisses the step of Paradise.
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- Who has power in his hands has no need to lie; he uses violence.
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- Who gossips to you will gossip about you.
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- Who burned himself with hot milk blows on ice cream.
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- Where you were born is less important than how you live.
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- Where there are no sheep, they call the goat princess.
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- Where conceit and ignorance sit, grass will not grow again.
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- When you tell the truth, have one foot in the stirrup.
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- Gold takes no rust.
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- The governor must fill your jars.
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- You may lie, but not too much.
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- Good actions are never lost.
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- The luckiest dies in his cradle.
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- A building without foundation is soon demolished.
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- Hawks will not pick out hawk's eyes.
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- The plumber's house always leaks.
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- A ship with two captains sinks.
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- He that converses not knows nothing.
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- The point in question is yet undecided.
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- A true word needs no oath.
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- He that falls by himself never cries.
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- The raven sees its chickens as falcons.
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- Abundance is from activity.
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- He who knows much makes many mistakes.
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- The sea never buys fish.
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- An ass does not appreciate fruit compote.
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- He who steals honey, licks his fingers.
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- There is no royal road to learning.
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- An ember burns where it falls.
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- Man is his own mirror.
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