There is an uphill for every downhill, and a downhill for every uphill.

More Turkish Proverbs

• 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.
• 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.