Write kind words in marble, insults in sand.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Words
A beggar will always be a beggar even if they give him the whole world as a gift.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Gifts
Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
—Persian Proverb
The guard’s sleep is the lamplight of the thief.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
There are three kinds of enemy: the enemy himself, the friends of your enemy, and the enemies of your friends.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Enemies
The world is a rose, smell it and pass it to your friends.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
—Persian Proverb
Thick body, weak soul.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: The Body
The mediator in a fight gets all the blows.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Fighting
Listening to good advice is the way to wealth.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Advice
A bad wound heals but a bad word doesn’t
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Words, Proverbs
It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
Flies will easily fly into the honey—their problem is how to get out.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Problems
The big drum only sounds well from a distance.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Misfortune
Who has ever seen tomorrow?
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Tomorrow
If a man would live in peace, he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Peace
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
A man without a child is a king without sorrows.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Kings
A dog by your side is better than a brother miles away.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Brothers
If you really have to sin, and then choose a sin that you enjoy.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Enjoyment
A greedy man is always poor.
—Persian Proverb
Use your enemy’s hand to catch a snake.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Enemies
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
The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Memory, Reason, Thought
Eat little, sleep sound
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Eating
He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Experience
A mirror does not reflect a broken heart.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Heart
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
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