Eat and drink with your friends but do not trade with them.

More Turkish Proverbs

• Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
• Two captains sink a ship.
• He beats his breast who does not beat his child.
• Better a wise foe than a foolish friend.
• A dog that intends to bite does not bear its teeth.
• If skill could be gained by watching, every dog would become a butcher.
• Kind words will unlock an iron door.
• The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil.
• Love is like a nest of sparrows that, once destroyed, can no longer be rebuilt.
• A good companion shortens the longest road.
• A kind word warms a man throughout three winters.
• An open door invites callers.
• He that falls by himself never cries.
• A pound is sixteen ounces wherever you go.
• Wish well be good.
• In a flat country a hillock thinks itself a mountain.
• Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.
• They asked the Turkmen whether he wants to buy bees, he said Why should I have all that buzz with my money?
• Kiss the hand which you cannot wring.
• A heavy stone is not easily moved.
• A twig is bent while it is green.
• Stretch your feet according to your blanket.
• Ability has no school.
• A lover is one who, running in the snow, leaves no traces of his footsteps.
• A thousand friends are too few; one enemy is one too many.
• Remain hungry but do not start begging.
• One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.