kurdish proverbs
A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship.
A fool dreams of wealth, a wise man, of happiness.
A good companion shortens the longest road.
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
A hungry stomach has no ears.
A kind word warms a man through three winters.
A knife-wound heals, but a tongue-wound festers.
A man is as wise as his head, not his years.
A man is judged by his work.
A thousand friends are too few; one enemy is one too many.
A tribulation is better than a hundred warnings.
A visitor comes with ten blessings, eats one, and leaves nine.
A wise man does his own work.
An illness comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce.
An open door invites callers.
At table keep short hand; in company keep a short tongue.
Beauty passes; wisdom remains.
Better a wise foe than a foolish friend.
Do not roll up your trousers before reaching the stream.
Do what your teacher says but not what he does.
Dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
Every “bad” has its “worse”.
God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly.
If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, be strong.
It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.
It is easy to catch a serpent with someone else’s hand.
Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.
Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.
Stairs are climbed step by step.
Stretch your feet according to your blanket.
Study from new books but from old teachers.
The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.
Thorns and roses grow on the same tree.
What you give away you keep.
Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size.
Wish well, be well.
With patience, mulberry leaves become satin.
