Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about Contentment, page 2

48 proverbs and old sayings afghan about contentment

Go out from your village: don't let your village go out form you.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

Don't use your teeth when you can untie the knot with your fingers.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

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 contentment

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 contentment

In childhood you are palyful, In youth you are lustful In old age you are feeble, So when will you before God be worshipful?

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

When a man is coming toward you, you need not say: Come here.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

You can always buy her back later.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

You cannot hide behind your finger.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

You cannot kill an elephant with bullets of wax.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

You make a new arrow by comparing it to an old one.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

If God breaks your leg, He will teach you how to limp.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

He who seems to be for you may be working against you.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

If you come near the river, you will hear the crab cough.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

When the palm nuts ripen, you carry half and I carry half.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

If you go too near your relatives, they will not respect you.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment

Little palm tree, stop crying, you child is the tall palm tree.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about contentment