More Turkish Proverbs
- 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.
- 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.