A beggar will always be a beggar even if they give him the whole world as a gift.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Gifts
Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the pleasure passes but the headache remains.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
A dog by your side is better than a brother miles away.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Brothers
Listening to good advice is the way to wealth.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Advice
The guard’s sleep is the lamplight of the thief.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Misfortune
The mediator in a fight gets all the blows.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Fighting
A bad wound heals but a bad word doesn’t.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Words
Our real grave is not in the ground but in men’s hearts.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Heart
I kept, I lost. I have, I gave. I gave, I gained.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Kindness
Write kind words in marble, insults in sand.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Words
With a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Kindness
Be a lion at home and a fox abroad.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Home
Eat little, sleep sound.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Eating, Proverbs
Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; doing well wisest and best of all.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Thoughts, Wise, Thinking, Thought, Action
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Learning, Common Sense
Whoever has no children has no light in his eyes.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Eyes
Thick body, weak soul.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: The Body
Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Proverbial Wisdom
Every man is the king of his own beard.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Kings
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Death, Dying
Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Meditation
A visitor comes with ten blessings, eats one, and leaves nine.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Blessings
Heaven is at the feet of mothers.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Heaven, Mother
Go and wake up your luck.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Luck, Fortune
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: Education, Fools, Foolishness
Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Luck
Use your enemy’s hand to catch a snake.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Enemies
The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Reason, Thought, Memory
Flies will easily fly into the honey—their problem is how to get out.
—Persian Proverb
Topics: Problems
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