Turkish Proverbs (425 Proverbs)
- A bird will not fly with one wing.
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- A son will learn from his father to make a living, a daughter will learn from her mother to cut clothes.
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- Drop by drop, it will make a pond.
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- Habits don't expire until the soul expires.
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- If they say there is a wedding in the sky, women would try to put up a ladder.
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- Look at the mother before marrying the daughter.
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- One cannot eat the meat of every bird.
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- The buyer of the rotten beans is the blind man.
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- The hazelnut emerged from its shell and did not like the look of it.
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- The stew of cheap meat will be tasteless.
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- They put up minds for sale on the market, everyone liked his own mind.
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- Whatever the thoughts of the dervish, so are his formulas.
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- Who has seen death will be content with illness.
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- Wormy beans will have blind buyers.
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- A broke merchant counted his small change.
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- A village that you can see in a distance do not require a guide.
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- Entrust not your goats nor sheep to the unmarried Shepherd.
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- Happy is he whose own faults prevent him from castigating the faults of others.
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- If you do not know what to say, say what your elders said.
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- Many will show the way after the carriage has overturned.
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- One eats while another watches -- that is how revolutions are begun.
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- The cock that crows at the wrong time is killed.
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- The head of the rooster that crows out of time will be cut off.
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- The stone will not move from its place unless head is put to head.
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- They sowed "if only" and "if found", and wind and waste sprang up.
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- When bribery enters through the door, faith goes out through the chimney.
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- Who is far from the eye will also be far from the heart.
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- You can find no pomegranates on a willow tree, nor shame in the wicked.
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- A chicken won't be grudged to a place a goose will come from.
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- A white day sheds light, a black day sheds darkness.
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- Even if you know a thousand things, still consult him who knows something.
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- He who did not help building the minaret, thinks that it just grew out from the ground.
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- If you search for a faultless woman, you will remain a bachelor.
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- March makes one look through the door, and makes one burn hoes and shovels.
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- One must fill the pitcher while the water is flowing.
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- The cornered rat will lick the balls of the cat.
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- The house that receives no guests, never receives angels.
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- The tool makes the hand proud.
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- They throw stones at a tree with fruit.
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- When the bundles of tobacco are ready, dancing begins.
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- Who laughs last, laughs the best.
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- You can tell a lion from where he dwells.
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- A full pistol scares one person, an emty one scares forty people.
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- An orphan cuts his own umbilical cord.
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- Even the rich man's rooster lays eggs.
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- He who does evil to another, has done it to himself.
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- If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
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- Measure a thousand times, cut once.
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- One scabbed sheep will taint a whole flock.
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- The courteous learn their virtue from the discourteous.
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- The ink of the scholar is more precious than the blood of martyrs.
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- The tree branch should be cut off before it becomes a limb.
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- They will expel him who speaks the truth from nine villages.
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- When the flock makes an about-face, the stragglers become leaders.
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- Who leaves no traces in the field, will be put to shame at harvest.
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- You harvest what you sow.
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- A gold sword opens an iron door.
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- Anyone can make a spoon, but not everyone can make the handle.
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- Every person admires his own character.
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- He who gets up in anger, sits down with a loss.
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- In a village with too many roosters morning will come late.
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- Mountain won't meet mountain, but man will meet man.
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- One searches for someone else's donkey while singing songs.
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- The crow said: "Oh, my snow-white child".
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- The liar's house burned, but nobody believed it.
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- The unqualified man desires to climb to the top; the bad man desires to sit at the head of the table.
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- Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope.
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- When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.
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- Who lies with the blind gets up cross-eyed.
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- You master, I master, who milking this cow?
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- A guest will not eat what he hopes for but what he finds.
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- As the crow tried to imitate the partridge, it forgot its own walking style.
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- Every rooster crows in its own pen.
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- He who has wraps four, he who has not wraps trouble.
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- In proportion as anger comes, sense departs.
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- Mountains won't endure on what lies ready.
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- One who handles honey, licks his fingers.
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- The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil.
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- The mill won't turn with carried water.
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- The value of youth will be known in old age.
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