Kurdish Proverbs
- A cup of coffe commits one of 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 trough three winters.
- A knife-wound heals, but a tounge-wound festers.
- A man is as wise as his head, not his years.
- A man is judged by his work.
- A neighbours hen looks as big as a goose, and his wife as young as a girl.
- A red apple invites stones.
- A small key opens big doors.
- 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.
- A wise man remembers his friends all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.
- Ability has no school.
- Activity breeds prosperity.
- 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 tounge.
- Beauty passes; wisdom remains.
- Better a calf of one's own than a jointly owned cow.
- Better a wise foe than a foolish friend.
- Both the hunter and the hunted rely on God.
- Do not roll up your trousers before reaching the stream.
- Do what your theacher says but not what he does.
- Dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
- Eat and drink with your friends but do not trade with them.
- Empty words will not fill an empty stomach.
- Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot.
- Every "bad" has its "worse".
- Every sheep is hung by his own leg.
- Fear an ignorant man more than a lion
- For every wise man there in one still wiser
- Give nine, save ten.
- God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly.
- God has created us brothers but has given us separate purses.
- Guests bring good luck with them.
- Habit is worse then rabies.
- If God closes one door, He opens a thousand others.
- If skill could be gained by watching, every dog would become a butcher.
- If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, be strong.
- If you give him cloth, he'll ask for the lining.
- If you wish to do a good deed, consult no one.
- In a flat country a hillock thinks itself a mountain.
- It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch then to make a fool listen to reason.
- It is easy to catch a serpent with someone else's hand.
- It is easy to say "Come" difficult do say "Go".
- It is more difficult to contend with oneself then with the world.
- Kind words will unlock an iron door.
- Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.
- Many will show you the way once your cart has overturned.
- No matter where you go, your destiny follows you.
- Of everything else the newest; of friends, the oldest.
- Once a friend, always a friend.
- One beats one's breast who dose not beat one's child.
- One bites his tongue who speaks in haste.
- One gives twice who gives quickly.
- One can never repay one's debt to one's mother.
- One is equally indebted to one's teacher and to go.
- Open your eyes, not your mouth.
- Part with your head, but not with your secret.
- Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.
- See with your mind; hear with your heart.
- Stairs are climbed step by step.
- Stretch you feet according to your blanket.
- Study from new books but from old teachers.
- The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.
- The miser and the open-handed spend the same in long run.
- The rich man's wealth tires the poor man's raw.
- Thorns and roses grow on the same tree.
- Those who know do not talk; those talk do not know.
- To speak is to sow; to listen is to reap.
- What is loaned goes away smiling but returns weeping.
- What the heart thinks, the mouth speaks.
- What you give away you keep.
- When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look lice mice.
- Who buys cheap buys dear.
- Whoever digs a pit for his neighbour should dig it his own size.
- Whoever is fond of cream should take the cow around with him.
- Whoever speaks evil to you of others will speak evil of you to others.
- Wish well, be well.
- With patience, mulberry leaves become satin.
- Works as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.