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
Today’s egg is better than tomorrow’s hen.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: The Present
The physician prescribes the medicine, the vulture waits for the body.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: The Body
A weapon is an enemy even to its owner.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Enemies, Weapon
In our eyes the neighbor’s chicken is a goose.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Eyes
God made low branches for birds that cannot fly so well.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Flying
Profit is the brother of loss.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Profit, Brothers
It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Home
Don’t look at the shape—look at the character.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Character
A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Words, Proverbs
A man will sacrifice his head to conquer a heart.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Heart
He who knows much makes many mistakes.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Mistakes
A prudent man will read the letter from back to front.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Letters
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
He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Grief, Proverbs
The devil tempts all other men,
but idle men tempts the devil.
—Turkish Proverb
Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Sorrow, Proverbs
Everyone admires his own character.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Admiration, Character
A person does not seek luck; luck seeks the person.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Luck
Happiness is like crystal—when it shines the most, it soon cracks.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Happiness
If you weep for all the sorrows in this world, in the end you will have no eyes.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Eyes
Before you love, Learn to run through the snow Leaving no footprint
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Snow
No road is long with good company.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Relationships, Friendship
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Wisdom
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Truth
A defeated wrestler is not tired of wrestling.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Defeat
None is so rich as to throw away a friend.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Friendship
Silence is music to a wise man.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Silence
He that falls by himself never cries.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Pessimism, Complaints, Complaining
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Humankind, Humanity
Satan’s friendship reaches to the prison door.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Friendship
One bad experience is worth more than a thousand threats.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Experience
He who gives little gives from his heart; he who gives much gives from his wealth.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Heart
A woman has advice only for another woman.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Advice
Gold takes no rust.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Gold
Do not leave to the morning the business of the evening.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Business, Morning
The gardener who loves roses is slave to a thousand thorns.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Garden
He who has no bread has no authority
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Authority
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Change, Failure