Turkish Proverb Proverb Quotations

Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.

A lion sleeps in the heart of every brave man.

Whoever the heart loves, she is the beauty.

If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, be strong.

A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

A kind word warms a man throughout three winters.

A pound is sixteen ounces wherever you go.

Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size.

It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.

They asked the Turkmen whether he wants to buy bees, he said Why should I have all that buzz with my money?

A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship.

The granary is at the point of the plowshare.

God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly.

Eat and drink with your friends but do not trade with them.

Thorns and roses grow on the same tree.

Study from new books but from old teachers

If skill could be gained by watching, every dog would become a butcher.

Fear an ignorant man more than a lion

One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.

In a flat country a hillock thinks itself a mountain.

He beats his breast who does not beat his child.

A twig is bent while it is green.

A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.

A thousand friends are too few; one enemy is one too many.

A dog that intends to bite does not bear its teeth.

There is an uphill for every downhill, and a downhill for every uphill.

No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb

The sage speaks of what he sees; the fool, of what he hears.

Better a wise foe than a foolish friend.