More Turkish Proverbs
- 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.
- 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.