Heaven is at the feet of mothers.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Heaven, Mother
The guard’s sleep is the lamplight of the thief.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
A friend is like a poem.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Friendship
The mediator in a fight gets all the blows.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Fighting
It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Manners, Brothers
Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Life and Living
Forgiveness hides a pleasure that you can’t get back from revenge.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Forgiveness, Revenge
A man without a child is a king without sorrows.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Kings
He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Experience
If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Misfortune
When its time has arrived, the prey goes to the hunter.
—Persian Proverb
Don’t just take love, experience it.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Experience
Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the pleasure passes but the headache remains.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Meditation
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Death, Dying
The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Memory, Thought, Reason
If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Caution, Risk
The mud that you throw will fall on your own head.
—Persian Proverb
I kept, I lost. I have, I gave. I gave, I gained.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Kindness
Trust in God – but tie your camel tight.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Self-reliance, Prayer
Whoever has no children has no light in his eyes.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Eyes
The public improves the speaker’s speech.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Speech
A bad wound heals but a bad word doesn’t
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Words
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
—Persian Proverb
Who has ever seen tomorrow?
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Tomorrow
God gives to us according to the measure of our hearts.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Heart
A greedy man is always poor.
—Persian Proverb
If you really have to sin, and then choose a sin that you enjoy.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Enjoyment