Proverbs and old sayings, page 1573

43575 proverbs and old sayings

If it doesn't have water for me, instead it has bread for you.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about water, contentment

Don't borrow from a baby-boomer, if you borrow, don't spend it.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about contentment

As soon as a man gets new trousers, he thinks about a new wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about wife, man

If he has seven blind daughters, he will marry them in an hour.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about blind

If I haven't eaten wheat-bread, I've seen it in people's hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about haven, people

Who does not beat his own child will later beat his own breast.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about children

Whether you were gold or satin, you're the same acanthus-seller.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about contentment

I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about man

If a man would live in peace, he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about peace, blind, man

He who has a clean account, what fear of calculation does he have?

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about fear

Forgiveness hides a pleasure that you can't get back from revenge.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about absolution, revenge, pleasure, contentment

If you're a reed-player, why did your father die of typhoid fever?

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about death, contentment

Look at the strainer that tells the skimmer: You have three holes.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about contentment

One sip of wine is an antidote against death, cupfuls poison life.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about wine, death, life

Arabic is a language, Persian is a delicacy and Turkish is an art.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about language, art, magic

If everybody said bread and cheese, you put your head down and die.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about heads, death, contentment

It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about common sense, sense

Debts are like women, once you have them you can't get rid of them.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about contentment

I eat what others have planted and I plant what others want to eat.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

The pleasure of finding something is worth more than what you find.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about pleasure, contentment