Persian Proverbs (345 Proverbs)
- Bake the bread while the oven is hot.
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- Get along with the village headman, plunder the village.
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- I poured our own flour and hung our hairsieve.
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- If you know lullaby, why can't you sleep?
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- Often the best way of giving oneself what one lacks is to take from oneself what one has.
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- The water has passed his head.
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- We're alive from lack of a shroud.
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- You ask the donkey when's Wednesday?
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- Bam's eggplant doesn't have a defect.
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- Go slowly and come slowly so that the cat won't gore you.
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- I tried to do charity, I burned.
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- If you walk with your feet your shoe will get worn, if you walk with your head, your hat.
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- One good father can do more than 100 schoolmasters.
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- There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
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- What can the enemy do when the friend is cordial.
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- You became full by eating, it won't happen by licking.
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- Bugbear took it all.
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- Good grape becomes fox's possession.
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- I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.
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- If you're a reed-player, why did your father die of typhoid fever?
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- Oosta Alam, take this one into account.
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- There is water in the jug, and we're going around thirsty.
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- What my heart wanted didn't happen -- What God wanted, that happened.
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- You can't squeeze blood from a rock.
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- Comfortable is he who doesn't have a donkey -- Doesn't know of its straw and barley.
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- He doesn't see water, otherwise he is a skilled swimmer.
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- If Akbar doesn't give, Akbar's God gives.
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- If you're a shoveler, shovel your garden first.
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- Play, play, with the beard of the father also play?
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- These words won't become a loose skirt for Fati.
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- What you've brought for me, take for your aunt.
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- You've grazed so much, where's your tail-fat?
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- Crooked load will not get to the destination.
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- He eats sheep-tail with the wold, and cries with the shephard.
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- If Ali is the camel-driver, he knows where to rest his camel.
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- In the hour of adversity be not without hope.
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- Poured clear water on hiher hands.
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- They don't count the teeth of a gift horse.
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- Whatever I disliked, happened to me.
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- Death is a camel that lies down at every door.
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- he gives from caliph's bag.
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- If children's prayer had any effect, there wouldn't be a single teacher alive.
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- Injustice all round is justice.
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- Raise what you've given birth to.
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- This caravan is lame until doomsday.
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- When its time has arrived, the prey becomes the hunter.
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- Don't be afraid of he who's loud and noisy, be afraid of he who's head is down.
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- he has eaten so many snakes that has become a viper.
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- If everybody said bread and cheese, you put your head down and die.
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- It is better to be in chains with friends, than to be in a garden with strangers.
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- Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond.
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- This is not Kashan where the heap comes with the coolies.
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- When the water goes uphill, the frog sings AbuAta.
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- Don't borrow from a baby-boomer, if you borrow, don't spend it.
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- he has fallen from the donkey, but has found a date.
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- If he has seven blind daughters, he will marry them in an hour.
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- It is too late for you, let God give your children some intelligence.
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- Seven sets of ewers, but no dinner nor lunch.
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- Those who are richer, are needier.
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- When there are two cooks, the soup becomes either salty or saltless.
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- First goblet and then drunkenness.
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- he has lost the horse, but is looking for the horseshoe.
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- If he hasn't seen her/his father, he would claim to be a king.
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- It's from us that is on us.
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- Silence betokens consent.
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- Trust in God -- but tie your camel tight.
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- When there's fire, dry and wet burn together.
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- First prove your brotherhood, then claim inheritance.
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- he keeps her/his face red with slaps.
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- If he says yogurt is white, I'll say it's black.
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- I've seen your top, I've seen your bottom also.
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- Spectators see better than actors.
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- Try it first and then say it's saltless.
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- When water stays at one place, it rots.
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- A friend is like a poem.
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- For crystal rain falls from black clouds.
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- he makes the water muddy to fish.
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- If he was any good, his name would be Kheirollah.
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- Kettledrum's sound is nice when heard from afar.
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- Spring won't come from one flower.
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