Profit is the brother of loss.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Brothers, Profit
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Humanity, Humankind
One bad experience is worth more than a thousand threats.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Experience
When violence comes into the house, law and justice leave through the chimney.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Law, Violence
He who knows much makes many mistakes.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Mistakes
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Heart
You cannot get into Paradise without a guide.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Paradise
A defeated wrestler is not tired of wrestling.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Defeat
A woman has advice only for another woman.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Advice
A person does not seek luck; luck seeks the person.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Luck
Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Hope
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Friends and Friendship, Friendship
Gold takes no rust.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Gold
Thorns and roses grow on the same tree.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
God made low branches for birds that cannot fly so well.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Flying
Before you love, Learn to run through the snow Leaving no footprint
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Snow
There isn’t a sword that would cut off a golden hand.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Gold
He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Haste
Gold that is lent goes away laughing and comes back in tears.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Gold
Who has power in his hands has no need to lie; he uses violence.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Violence
Who kisses the feet of his mother, kisses the step of Paradise.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Mother, Paradise
When a rich man falls they say it was an accident; when a poor man falls they say that he was drunk.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Listening
No road is long with good company.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Relationships, Friendship
In our eyes the neighbor’s chicken is a goose.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Eyes
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Wisdom
If you weep for all the sorrows in this world, in the end you will have no eyes.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Eyes
The devil tempts all other men,
but idle men tempts the devil.
—Turkish Proverb
Do not leave to the morning the business of the evening.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Morning, Business
Everyone admires his own character.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Character, Admiration
Don’t look at the shape—look at the character.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Character
He that falls by himself never cries.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Complaints, Complaining, Pessimism
Silence is music to a wise man.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Silence
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Eating, Food
One arrow does not bring down two birds.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Focus, Concentration
A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Words, Proverbs
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Truth
Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don’t get soaked in the rain.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Gold
In the company of the blind, close your eyes.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Eyes
He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Grief