Persian Proverbs (345 Proverbs)
- We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping.
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- Woe to being a housewife/househusband, you buy one thing, you don't have two others.
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- Aspiration is not a defect for youngsters.
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- From you motion, from God blessing.
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- He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, f
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- If the Lor doesn't go to bazaar, everything will rot.
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- Nobody sees a miracle from this shrine.
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- The water doesn't move.
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- We might've fallen from the horse, but not from the honor.
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- Woe to Leili's doogh, the yogurt was too little and the water too much.
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- 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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- Do not use words that are too big for your mouth.
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- An arrow can be pulled out of a wound, but a hurtful word stays forever in your heart.
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- A camel does not drink with a spoon.
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- Do not let the cat watch over the bacon.
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- Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light.
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- A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.
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- Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
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- A wolf's repentance died a long time ago.
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- A blind person who sees is better than a seeing person who is blind.
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- Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
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- A thief is a king until he is caught.
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- A blind man who sees is better than a sighted man who is blind.
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- Debts are like women, once you have them you can't get rid of them.
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- A tear at the right moment is better than a misplaced smile.
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- A beggar will always be a beggar even if they give him the whole world as a gift.
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- For his master the dog is a lion.
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- Courtesy on one side can never last long.
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- A sword in the hands of a drunken slave is less dangerous than science in the hands of the unscrupulous.
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- A bad wound heals but a bad word doesn't.
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- For an ant to have wings would be his undoing.
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- Courtesie is cumbersome to them that ken it not.
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- A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time.
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- Flies will never leave the shop of a sweetmaker.
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- By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair.
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- A snake can change its skin but not its disposition.
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- Flies will easily fly into the honey -- their problem is how to get out.
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- Bravery without foresight is like a blind horse.
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- A sharp tongue will cut off its own head.
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- Expect trust from a dog but not from a woman.
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- Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog, and a quarrelsome person.
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- A mirror does not reflect a broken heart.
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- Every man is the king of his own beard.
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- Be a lion at home and a fox abroad.
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- A man's servant can live for a hundred years; the slave of a woman dies in six months.
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- Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
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- As the wise man looks for a bridge the fool crosses the river.
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- A man without passion is no son of Adam.
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- Every fault that a Sultan pleases can be a quality.
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