Persian Proverbs Quotes

You’ve grazed so much, where’s your tail-fat?

You only appreciate your father the day you become a father yourself.

You don’t put a wooden pot on the fire twice.

You cannot hang everything on one nail.

You cannot applaud with one hand.

You can’t escape death and guests.

You can close the city gates but not the mouths of men.

You became full by eating, it won’t happen by licking.

You ask the donkey when’s Wednesday?

Work is twice done by the man in a hurry.

Women are just like cats — they always land on their feet.

Woe to Leili’s doogh, the yogurt was too little and the water too much.

Woe to being a housewife/househusband, you buy one thing, you don’t have two others.

Woe is he who claims to have found happiness.

With one ear he hears, and with the other he dismisses.

Why would a pool that doesn’t have water need so many frogs?

Whoever has no children has no light in his eyes.

Whoever can walk on water is probably made of straw.

Who sows barley cannot reap wheat.

Who has not had a taste longs to do so, but for whom has tasted then the longing is a hundred times more.