Proverbs from Afghanistan

Proverbs from Afghanistan

• What you see in yourself is what you see in the world.

• There are twenty-five uncaught sparrows for a penny.

• Don't show me the palm tree, show me the dates.

• Only stretch your foot to the length of your blanket.

• No one says his own buttermilk is sour.

• A lame crab walks straight.

• Two watermelons can't be held in one hand.

• Allah has said, "Start moving so that I may start blessing.".

• Blood cannot be washed out with blood.

• Don't be a thief and you won't fear the king.

• Cats don't catch mice to please God.

• Five fingers are brothers but not equals.

• It's the same donkey, but with a new saddle.

• Storing milk in a sieve, you complain of bad luck?

• If you want to keep camels, have a big enough door.

• The seeker is the finder.

• The right answer to a fool is silence.

• The mud of one country is the medicine of another.

• Under his bowl there is a little bowl.

• Five of them would run from the bang of one empty gun.