An open mouth remains no hungry.

More Turkish Proverbs

• Study from new books but from old teachers.
• A person does not seek luck, luck seeks the person.
• Fear an ignorant man more than a lion
• Stairs are climbed step by step.
• Eat and drink with your friends but do not trade with them.
• He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it.
• Who gossips to you, will gossip of you
• It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.
• 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.