Proverb Quotes

Gossip till the cows come home.

Feed a squirrel and he'll leave you alone every day.

When the cat gets hungry, it starts to steal.

Kamaran Ihsan Salih

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

W Somerset Maugham

A good night's sleep counts healthy sheep.

Human beings say, "It never rains but it pours." This is not very apt, for it frequently does rain without pouring. The rabbits' proverb is better expressed. They say, "One cloud feels lonely": and indeed it is true that the sky will soon be overcast.

Without shame, without conscience.

I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.

It is logical to look for a green fowl in a dark room even if you know the chance of finding a green fowl in a dark room is slim.

It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.

If a fox strangles a goose just to eat the brains, you wouldn’t say the fox killed the brains. You’d say the fox offed the goose.

Vladimir Lorchenkov

One lie will keep out forty truths.

If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.

If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower’.

Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.

The mine is always bigger than the gem.

Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret.

Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.

The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round.

Rust through washing never became white.

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.Proverb

A stolen kiss is not easily returned.

You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan.

Take the straight path, even if it is long: marry no widow, even if she is a houri.

What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it.

No colour comes after black.

Learning without action is like wax without honey.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird.

THE HEAVENSTo the mallet of the Highest MindThe heavens are the smallest possible ball.(Akhlaq-i-Mohsini)

THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.

Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness.

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

Much smoke has been seen, and caused great fear of fire — even when no fire ensued.

Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?

Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.

The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.

When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.

Before the antidote arrives from Iraq The man with snake-bite will be dead.

The bowl is warmer than the soup.

When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.

There are as many paths to Truth as there are souls of men.

The hearts of the noble are the graves of confidences.

The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King.

God provides the food, men provide the cooks.

You can tease it's mane all you like, but you can't turn a house cat into a lion.

When the Lord's request comes, will remove all other demands.

Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next

Do not drown yourself into fantasy, whatever you can do, do it now, do not wait for tomorrow to come.

Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Do a bit research before you plan.

Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Life consists on lightness and darkness, when you reached to lightness, prepare your tools for darkness

Kamaran Ihsan Salih

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)

Hold mirth tight against your breast, but answer every injury with bladed heart.

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

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