Proverbs and old sayings Afghan, page 12

351 proverbs and old sayings afghan

Try out your shoes on your feet -- gauge people against their misfortune.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about people

A mountain doesn't reach out to mountain, a man is reaching out to a man.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about man

A real friend takes the hand of his friend in overwhelming worry and fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about worry, real estate, fire, fire brigade

Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about wealth, people

A leopard's spots: or, what is bred in the babe will come out in the flesh.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

Even if a knife is made of gold, a person won't stab his own heart with it.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about people, heart

Even if a knife is made of silver, a person won't stab his own heart with it.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about people, heart

Good perfume is known by its scent rather than by the perfumer's advertisement.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about advertising, perfume, good, good luck

Look after your property, and you won't accuse your neighbour of being a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about being, thieves

The first day you meet, you are friends; the next day you meet, you are brothers.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about day

It is easier to wage war with wise enemies than be at peace with foolish friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about salary, enemies, war, peace

There are no greater prudes than those women who have their own dirty secrets to hide.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

When water goes over your head, what difference if it's one fathom or a hundred fathoms.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about heads, water

You stored your milk in a straining metal... and now you are complaining about bad luck?

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about bad luck, good luck, bad

Unfortunates learn from their own mistakes, and the lucky ones learn from other's mistakes.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

If you sit with us, you will get like us; if you sit beside a cooking pot, you will get black.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about magic

You can use salt to prevent meat from rotting, but what will you use to prevent salt from rotting?

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about use

Whosoever eats bread without first washing his hands, it is as though he had sinned with a harlot.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

The ungrateful son is a wart on his father's face; to leave it is a blemish, to cut it off is pain.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about pain, face

The ungrateful son is like a wart on his father's face; to leave it there is unsightly, to cut it off is painful.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about face