Where there is a will, there is a way.

More Afghan Proverbs

• Give graciously – even an onion.
• In old age you’re feeble.
• Don’t use your teeth when you can un-tie the knot with your fingers.
• Debt severs love.
• He has soaked a hundred heads, but hasn’t shaved one.
• Heaven is dark and yet out of it streams clear water.
• A fox is in trouble because of his pelt.
• What comes out of a trumpet except breath?
• Dont take off your shoes before seeing the water.
• Don’t stop a donkey that is not yours.
• Don’t show me the palm tree, show me the dates.
• There is blessing in action.
• 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.