Afghan proverbs

There are no greater prudes than those women who have their own dirty secrets to hide.

When water goes over your head, what difference if it's one fathom or a hundred fathoms.

You stored your milk in a straining metal... and now you are complaining about bad luck?

Unfortunates learn from their own mistakes, and the lucky ones learn from other's mistakes.

A real friend is one who takes the hand of his friend in times of distress and helplessness.

If you sit with us, you will get like us; if you sit beside a cooking pot, you will get black.

You can use salt to prevent meat from rotting, but what will you use to prevent salt from rotting?

Whosoever eats bread without first washing his hands, it is as though he had sinned with a harlot.

The ungrateful son is a wart on his father's face; to leave it is a blemish, to cut it off is pain.

The ungrateful son is like a wart on his father's face; to leave it there is unsightly, to cut it off is painful.

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