More Turkish Proverbs
- Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.
- A small key opens big doors.
- Roses grow where a teacher hits.
- Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
- The granary is at the point of the plowshare.
- God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly.
- The sage speaks of what he sees; the fool, of what he hears.
- If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, be strong.
- A lion sleeps in the heart of every brave man.
- The death of another does not save us.
- Study from new books but from old teachers.
- A person does not seek luck, luck seeks the person.
- Fear an ignorant man more than a lion
- Stairs are climbed step by step.
- 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.