Proverb Quotes

When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.

Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?

Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.

When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.

Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness.

Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap.

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens.

Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.

One day the cub will become a wolf, even if it has been reared among the sons of man.

Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk.

I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope.

Much smoke has been seen, and caused great fear of fire — even when no fire ensued.

Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.Proverb

A stolen kiss is not easily returned.

You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan.

Take the straight path, even if it is long: marry no widow, even if she is a houri.

What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it.

No colour comes after black.

Learning without action is like wax without honey.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird.

THE HEAVENSTo the mallet of the Highest MindThe heavens are the smallest possible ball.(Akhlaq-i-Mohsini)

THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.

The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round.

Rust through washing never became white.

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.

If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower’.

Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.

The mine is always bigger than the gem.

Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret.

One lie will keep out forty truths.

If a fox strangles a goose just to eat the brains, you wouldn’t say the fox killed the brains. You’d say the fox offed the goose.

It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.

It is logical to look for a green fowl in a dark room even if you know the chance of finding a green fowl in a dark room is slim.

There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn.

I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.

Without shame, without conscience.

Those who want rain, must also accept the mud.

No, you cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them from building nests in your hair.

You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.

One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.

Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'.

A good night's sleep counts healthy sheep.

When the cat gets hungry, it starts to steal.