Proverbs and old sayings, page 103

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Grumbling and carping are the muscles of the weak.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

To speak ill of anyone is to speak ill of yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

If you want to keep camels, have a big enough door.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

He appreciates prosperity who is caught in calamity.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about prosperity

That which is obvious does not need to be explained.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about need

Only stretch you foot to the length of your blanket.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

A drunken donkey will not remember the monkeys bite.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

Flourish like a flower, but may your life be longer.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about garden, life

Having been bitten by a snake, he's afraid of a rope.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

He has soaked a hundred heads, but hasn't shaved one.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about heads

Heaven is dark and yet out of it streams clear water.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about dark, water

A mother won't give milk to her child until he cries.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about children, mother

If the master gnaws bones, what will he give the dog?

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

When God gives, He doesn't ask whose son a person is.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about people, god

While the butchers were arguing, the cow dropped dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

The man dying to hang himself can always find a noose.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about man

When an ant says 'ocean', he's talking about a puddle.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about talking

Learning makes some into Mullahs and some into devils.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about devil

Five of them would run from the bang of one empty gun.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

The world will not find rest by just saying peace.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about rest, peace, world