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
Use your enemy’s hand to catch a snake.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Enemies
A mirror does not reflect a broken heart.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Heart
The guard’s sleep is the lamplight of the thief.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
The eyes can do a thousand things that the fingers can’t.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Eyes
When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Fortune, Misfortunes
Write kind words in marble, insults in sand.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Words
When the cat and the mouse agree, the grocer is ruined.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Agreement
Who has ever seen tomorrow?
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Tomorrow
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
—Persian Proverb
There are three things that have to be done quickly: burying the dead, opening the door for a stranger, and fixing your daughter’s wedding.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Weddings
Don’t just take love, experience it.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Experience
With a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Kindness
The big drum only sounds well from a distance.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
Be a lion at home and a fox abroad.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Home
If a man would live in peace, he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Peace
A bad wound heals but a bad word doesn’t
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Words, Proverbs
Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Manners, Brothers
Forgiveness hides a pleasure that you can’t get back from revenge.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Revenge, Forgiveness
The mediator in a fight gets all the blows.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Fighting
Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; doing well wisest and best of all.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Thought, Wise, Thoughts, Thinking, Action
Thick body, weak soul.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: The Body
The man who speaks the truth is always at ease.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Truth
When its time has arrived, the prey goes to the hunter.
—Persian Proverb
There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Life and Living
A visitor comes with ten blessings, eats one, and leaves nine.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Blessings
Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Luck
Our real grave is not in the ground but in men’s hearts.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Heart
In the hotel of decisions the guests sleep well.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
Trust in God – but tie your camel tight.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Self-reliance, Prayer
Flies will easily fly into the honey—their problem is how to get out.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Problems
If you really have to sin, and then choose a sin that you enjoy.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Enjoyment
Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Meditation
The mud that you throw will fall on your own head.
—Persian Proverb
He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Experience
The drowning man is not troubled by rain.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Rain
He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Fools, Education, Foolishness
Listening to good advice is the way to wealth.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Advice
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Common Sense, Learning