Better a wise foe than a foolish friend.

More Turkish Proverbs

• 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.
• Work breeds prosperity.
• An open mouth remains no hungry.
• Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size.
• A fool dreams of wealth; a wise man, of happiness.
• Who buys cheap buys dear.
• Thorns and roses grow on the same tree.
• A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship.
• A hungry stomach has no ears.
• He who has no bread has no.
• Beauty Passes, wisdom remains.
• There is an uphill for every downhill, and a downhill for every uphill.
• Whoever the heart loves, she is the beauty.
• A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.
• A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.
• Love is a spring flower between two people that develop in summer and does not fade in winter.
• Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.
• A small key opens big doors.
• Roses grow where a teacher hits.
• Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
• The granary is at the point of the plowshare.