Persian Proverbs (345 Proverbs)
- I can only get better if I have good friends.
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- You only appreciate your father the day you become a father yourself.
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- When the snake is old, the frog will tease him.
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- There is no need for fish in an empty pond.
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- The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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- The best mode of instruction is to practise what we preach.
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- Little by little the wool becomes a carpet.
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- If you fall into a pit, Providence is under no obligation to come and look for you.
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- He whose heart is aroused by love will never die.
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- You can't put new wine in old bottles.
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- When its time has come, the prey goes to the hunter.
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- There are three things that have to be done quickly: burying the dead, opening the door for a stranger, and fixing your daughter's wedding.
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- The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
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- The best memory is that which forgets nothing but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
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- Listening to good advice is the way to wealth.
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- If you enter the city of the blind, cover your eyes.
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- He who wants the rose must respect the thorn.
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- You can't put an old head on young shoulders.
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- When the cat and the mouse agree, the grocer is ruined.
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- There are three kinds of enemy: the enemy himself, the friends of your enemy, and the enemies of your friends.
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- The hand that gives is also the one that receives.
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- The arrow that has left the bow never returns.
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- Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the pleasure passes but the headache remains.
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- If you can give me no ointment for my wound, can you help me by not rubbing salt in?
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- He who wants content can't find an easy chair.
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- You can't pick up two melons with one hand.
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- When I am dead the world can be an ocean or a dried up ditch.
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- There are four things in this life of which we have more than we think: faults, debts, years and enemies.
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- The guard's sleep is the lamplight of the thief.
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- That smells bad, said the cat about meat that it cannot reach.
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- Learn good manners from those who don't have them.
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- If there are two cooks in one house, the soup is either too salty or too cold.
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- He who sits waiting for his neighbor will go to bed hungry.
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- You can close the city gates but not the mouths of men.
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- When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your teeth.
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- The world is a rose; smell it and pass it on to your friends.
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- The eyes can do a thousand things that the fingers can't.
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- Taking the first step with the good thought, the second with the good word, and the third with the good deed, I enter paradise.
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- It's better to fly and stay alive than to die a hero.
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- If the teacher be corrupt, the world will be corrupt.
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- He who has only one enemy, meets him everywhere.
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- Work is twice done by the man in a hurry.
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- When a stone hits glass, the glass breaks. When glass hits a stone, the glass breaks.
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- The wise man who does not put his knowledge into practice is like a bee that gives no honey.
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- The fool's excuse is bigger than the mistake he made.
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- Stretch your foot to the length of your blanket.
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- It takes two days to learn everything about a man; to know animals you will need more time.
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- If the Sultan demands five eggs, let his soldiers roast a thousand chickens.
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- He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
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- Women are just like cats -- they always land on their feet.
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- When a lion is old, he becomes the plaything of jackals.
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- The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet.
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- The earth is a host who kills his guests.
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- Sometimes the body becomes healthy by being very sick.
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- It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.
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- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.
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- He who doesn't go to war roars like a lion.
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- Four walls make a man free.
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- The needle makes clothes but stays naked.
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- You can't push on a rope.
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- A broken sleeve holdeth the arm back.
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- Go further and fare worse.
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- The public improves the speaker's speech.
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- A child is a bridge to heaven.
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- God provides, but He needs a nudge.
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- The shoemaker's shoes have no heels.
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- A friend is a poem.
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- Gold bears more gold.
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- Thick body, weak soul.
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- A greedy man is always poor.
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- Great needs grow from great possessions.
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- Thinking is the essence of wisdom.
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- Bribery makes both parties happy.
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- He gives a party with bath-water.
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- Walls have mice and mice have ears.
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- Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous.
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- He that sows shall also reap.
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- Whatever you sow, you reap.
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- Credit is better than wealth.
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- He who eats alone is Satan's brother.
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