Persian proverbs

If you're a reed-player, why did your father die of typhoid fever?

Look at the strainer that tells the skimmer: You have three holes.

One sip of wine is an antidote against death, cupfuls poison life.

Arabic is a language, Persian is a delicacy and Turkish is an art.

If everybody said bread and cheese, you put your head down and die.

It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning.

Debts are like women, once you have them you can't get rid of them.

I eat what others have planted and I plant what others want to eat.

The pleasure of finding something is worth more than what you find.

With a sweet tongue of kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair.

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