God made low branches for birds that cannot fly so well.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Flying
If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Listening
Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Bitterness, Proverbs
One bad experience is worth more than a thousand threats.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Experience
Who has power in his hands has no need to lie; he uses violence.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Violence
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
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
Do not leave to the morning the business of the evening.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Business, Morning
Everyone admires his own character.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Character, Admiration
Thorns and roses grow on the same tree.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
Profit is the brother of loss.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Profit, Brothers
The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Haste
If you weep for all the sorrows in this world, in the end you will have no eyes.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Eyes
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Humankind, Humanity
Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don’t get soaked in the rain.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Gold
Satan’s friendship reaches to the prison door.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Friendship
The devil tempts all other men,
but idle men tempts the devil.
—Turkish Proverb
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Failure, Change
The gardener who loves roses is slave to a thousand thorns.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Garden
He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Grief, Proverbs
Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Sorrow
Happiness is like crystal—when it shines the most, it soon cracks.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Happiness
Today’s egg is better than tomorrow’s hen.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: The Present
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Eating, Food
A weapon is an enemy even to its owner.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Weapon, Proverbs, Enemies
Don’t look at the shape—look at the character.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Character
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Friendship, Friends and Friendship
One arrow does not bring down two birds.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Concentration, Focus
He who knows much makes many mistakes.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Mistakes
A person does not seek luck; luck seeks the person.
—Turkish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Luck