Proverbs and old sayings Persian, page 16

343 proverbs and old sayings persian

Don't be afraid of he who's loud and noisy, be afraid of he who's head is down.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about heads

The branch that bears the most fruit bends itself thankfully towards the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about time, bad, rightness

The strictness of the teacher is better to bear than the prejudice of the father.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about prejudice, teachers

It is better to be in chains with friends, than to be in a garden with strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about garden

A beggar will always be a beggar even if they give him the whole world as a gift.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about gifts, world

Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the pleasure passes but the headache remains.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about drunkenness, pleasure, life

In this world generous people have no money and those with money are not generous.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about money, world, people

If you fall into a pit, Providence is under no obligation to come and look for you.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about fall

If you tell the truth too early, you are laughed at -- too late and you are stoned.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about truth

Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about things

The lover who gives you her body but not her heart is generous with thornless roses.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about body, heart

If you can give me no ointment for my wound, can you help me by not rubbing salt in?

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about help

Comfortable is he who doesn't have a donkey -- Doesn't know of its straw and barley.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Woe to being a housewife/househusband, you buy one thing, you don't have two others.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about commerce, being, things

When a stone hits glass, the glass breaks. When glass hits a stone, the glass breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

I used to feel sorry for myself because I had no shoes until I met a man who was dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about man

A man's servant can live for a hundred years; the slave of a woman dies in six months.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about woman, man

An arrow can be pulled out of a wound, but a hurtful word stays forever in your heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about word, heart