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It is too late for you, let God give your children some intelligence.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about intelligence, children, god, contentment

You only appreciate your father the day you become a father yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about day, contentment

What my heart wanted didn't happen -- What God wanted, that happened.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about heart, god

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about work

I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about man

Whatever you eat will rot, whatever you give will blossom into a rose.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about contentment

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about common sense, sense

Giving advice to the ignorant is like the rain falling on muddy ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about advice, rain

Woe to Leili's doogh, the yogurt was too little and the water too much.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about water

Flies will easily fly into the honey -- their problem is how to get out.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about nothing, contentment

If the Sultan demands five eggs, let his soldiers roast a thousand chickens.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about wisdom

When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about contentment

If there are two cooks in one house, the soup is either too salty or too cold.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about kitchen, home, house

If children's prayer had any effect, there wouldn't be a single teacher alive.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about teachers, children

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