More Afghan Proverbs
- Though God is almighty, he doesn’t send rain from a clear sky.
- When man is perplexed god is beneficent.
- Hearing is never as good as seeing.
- Every anguish passes except the anguish of hunger.
- The right answer to a fool is silence.
- God has said start moving so that I may start blessing.
- Give graciously – even an onion.
- In old age you’re feeble.
- Don’t use your teeth when you can un-tie the knot with your fingers.
- Debt severs love.
- He has soaked a hundred heads, but hasn’t shaved one.
- Heaven is dark and yet out of it streams clear water.
- A fox is in trouble because of his pelt.
- What comes out of a trumpet except breath?
- Dont take off your shoes before seeing the water.
- Don’t stop a donkey that is not yours.
- Don’t show me the palm tree, show me the dates.
- There is blessing in action.
- Even the largest army is nothing without a good general.
- Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
- He ran out from under the leaking roof and set in the rain.
- No one says his own buttermilk is sour.
- Too many butchers ruined the cow.
- The deaf laugh twice.
- When god gives, he doesn’t ask whose son a person is.
- Appreciate great things.
- The potter drink water from a broken jug.