– It is too late for you, let God give your children some intelligence.

There are three kinds of enemies: the enemy himself, the friends of your enemy, and the enemies of your friends.

– Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. – Lucky are those who don’t have too many responsibilities.

– The fool’s excuse is bigger than the mistake he made. – You’ve spent so much money on yourself; what good are you?

گناه چیست؟ این، گناه است که دزدی نکنم، خودم و بچه هام از گرسنگی بمیرند.

For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight

– Whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue.

It still moans with the rickety sounds of age. All dreams spin out from the same web. – The hand that gives is also the one that receives. – With a sweet tongue of kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair. – The leek resembles its seed and little Hassan takes after his father. – Stretch your foot to the length of your blanket. “Wake!

– For a single guest, the host can a slaughter a cow. A drowning man is not troubled by rain.

Updated: 8 July 2019. نماز میخوانم و روزه میگیرم، حج میروم و زکات میدهم، انفاق میکنم و میبخشم، نه غیبتی و نه دروغی و نه حرامی، اما این نیست آنچه تو میخواهی، دلم راضی نمیشود، میدانم که چیزی بیش از اینها باید کرد

A slap in the face now is better than promised candy later.

– If he hadn’t seen his father, he would have claimed kingship. In this world generous people have no money and those with money are not generous.

– He is still alive because he cannot afford a funeral.

– You toss charity in the Tigris, and God shall return it in the desert. “Anahita knew every element of the sama, the dervishes’ whirling dance, was symbolic, celebrating both joy and pain. – Even if she had seven blind daughters, she’d marry them off in an hour. – One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. – If you work hard and live uncomfortably today, it’ll pay off in the future.

– The person who tells the truth is always at ease. Adjective Conjunctions; Abstractions; Comparative; Superlative; Demonstratives. – We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling.

– He eats sheep-tail with the wold, and cries with the shepherd. About Pontia; Work With Me; Media; Say Salaam; Expressions and Idioms Iranian Culture 12 Persian Idioms and Proverbs Related to Animals Posted on 26 July 2018. The best mode of instruction is to practise what we preach. – If everyone said bread and cheese, you put your head down and desist. Literally: Let me circle around you. Yoke not a camel and a cat together.

First prove your brotherhood, then claim inheritance.

– Persian Proverbs. – A fight in the beginning is better than peace in the end. – When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. – Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. – The mouse couldn’t fit through the hole, and then it tied a broom to its tail. Two midwives, and the baby’s head will be crooked. – A man’s servant can live for a hundred years; the slave of a woman dies in six months. – One will take someone to the spring and bring them back thirsty. – All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew. – You became full by eating, it won’t happen by licking. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping. Persian Sayings, Persian Idioms, Persian Phrases, and Persian Expressions. A quality statement often gets no answer. – Whatever you eat will rot, whatever you give will blossom into a rose. – Two midwives, and the baby’s head will be crooked. “They sat under a walnut tree on wooden benches draped with kilims and soon the table was covered with small dishes of yogurt, olives cured with angelica, eggplant and whey cooked to a silky paste, piles of basil, cilantro, and tarragon, and a pitcher of – It is so unlikely to obtain anything from this person that even a smidgen is a win. A stone thrown at the right time might be better than gold given at the wrong time. (We continue to live, because we couldn’t afford the funeral cost, if we were to die.) After dark all cats are leopards.

“این که مدام به سینه ات میکوبد قلب نیست ماهی کوچکی است که دارد نهنگ میشود. “Criticize me all you wish,” he returned coolly, “but remember that you come to me because of the very actions you denounce. To the ant, a few drops of dew are a flood.

Don't despise pepper because it is so small; eat, and see how pungent it is.

– A drop of rain makes no impression on a hard stone.

Welcome back. – In the hotel of decisions the guests sleep well. – Let the person in responsibility take care of the matter, as is the most able. – He escaped the thief, and fell in fortune-teller’s trap.

– The world is like an old building on the banks of a stream – it carries away piece by piece; in vain you stop it with a handful of earth. – They asked the mule who its father was and it said its uncle was a stallion. Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous. – He pulls a snake out of the nest with his tongue.

– Eat drink and make merry, for tomorrow you might die – Eating and sleeping is my profession, God Almighty is my protection.