Cats don’t catch mice to please God.

More Afghan Proverbs

• 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.
• Flourish like a flower, but may your life be longer .
• The world is the traveler’s inn.
• Smart people get the point from a single hint.
• Unless god does it. What can doctor do?
• Don’t sprinkle salt on my wound.
• Fear the person who doesn’t fear god.
• The world lives in hope.
• A tilted load won’t reach its destination.
• There is a way from heart to heart.
• As the sun’s shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on earth.
• If you don’t recognize god at least know him by his power.
• If you want to keep camels, have a big enough door.
• Even if a knife is made of silver, a person won’t stab his own heart with it.
• Where the heart would go, there follows the foot.
• One who runs will also fall.
• He appreciates prosperity who is caught in calamity.
• Forget the past , but look out in the future.
• But a wounded spirit cannot be overcome.