143 Sayings of Afghan Origin

1. "Poor iron won't make sharp sword." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "Little talk, more action." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "Heaven is dark and yet out of it streams clear water." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "Where there is a will, there is a way." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "But a wounded spirit cannot be overcome." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "Don't take off your shoes before seeing the water." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "Smart people get the point from a single hint." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "Blood cannot be washed out with blood." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "Don't use your teeth when you can un-tie the knot with your fingers." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "The world is the traveler's inn." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "Stretch your feet to the length of your blanket." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "Don't sprinkle salt on my wound." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "The first day you meet, you are friends. The next day you meet, you are brothers." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "I'm talking to the door, but I want the walls to hear me." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "A broken hand can work but a broken heart can't." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "You can't slap with one hand." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "That which thunders does not rain." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "In childhood you're playful." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "In a ditch where water has flowed, it will flow again." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "My drum doesn't say what I say." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "The world lives in hope." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "It's the same donkey, but with a new saddle." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "In an ant colony dew is a flood." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "Full up to your throat." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "Hasty work doesn't succeed." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "One flower doesn't bring spring." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "A good year is determined by its spring." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "The mud of one country is the medicine of another." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "One who calls himself khan is not a khan." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "Him in trouble, thus becoming his own worst enemy." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "A donkey has two friends, his two hind legs." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "Every tree feels the force of the wind." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "If you don't recognize god at least know him by his power." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "In old age you're feeble." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "Having been bitten by a snake, he's afraid of a rope." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "Even if a knife is made of silver, a person won't stab his own heart with it." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "There is blessing in action." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "The tree will not sway without a trace of wind." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "The best weapon is the one that's to hand." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

41. "He who can be killed by sugar should not be killed by poison." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

42. "He is riding donkey, but has lost the donkey." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

43. "Don't show me the palm tree, show me the dates." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

44. "a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

45. "A tree does not move unless there is wind." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

46. "Even the largest army is nothing without a good general." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

47. "A cheep thing doesn't lack defect, an expensive thing quality." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

48. "Two watermelons can't be held in one hand." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

49. "Abad wound heals, but a bad word doesn't." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

50. "You can't flee your lot nor share it with another." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

51. "Without a green switch the cow and donkey won't obey." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

52. "Two are better than one, and three than two." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

53. "One who runs will also fall." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

54. "Don't be a thief and you won't fear the king." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

55. "Though God is almighty, he doesn't send rain from a clear sky." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

56. "No rose is without thorns." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

57. "When the wine is free even the judge drinks it." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

58. "Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

59. "A real friend is one who takes the hand of his friend in times of distress and helplessness." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

60. "He who goes to the blacksmith's shop comes home with scorched clothes." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

61. "Everyone's own country is Kashmir to him." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

62. "Good perfume is known by its own scent rather than by the perfumer's advertisement." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

63. "Saying “salaam” (peace be with you) is a sign of true faith." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

64. "God has said start moving so that I may start blessing." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

65. "First food, then religion." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

66. "He has soaked a hundred heads, but hasn't shaved one." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

67. "If there is only bread and onion, still have a happy face." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

68. "There is a path to the top of highest mountain." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

69. "Fear the person who doesn't fear god." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

70. "Debt severs love." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

71. "Unless god does it. What can doctor do?" (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

72. "A fox is in trouble because of his pelt." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

73. "It is easier to wage war with wise enemies than be at peace with foolish friends." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

74. "Cats don't catch mice to please God." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

75. "A warm fire is better than delicious cooked rice." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

76. "The deaf laugh twice." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

77. "Man sins, then blames it on the devil." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

78. "What comes out of a trumpet except breath?" (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

79. "They ask the fox, who is your witness?" (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

80. "When the tiger kills, the jackal profits." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

81. "Every anguish passes except the anguish of hunger." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

82. "A palm tree growing in the shade will not bear ripe fruit." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

83. "In youth you're lustful." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

84. "Every man thinks his own thoughts are best." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

85. "Tow watermelons can't be held in one hand." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

86. "Salt preserves meat, but what can be done with salt if it is bad." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

87. "A river is made drop by drop." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

88. "He who is cornered will fight." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

89. "He appreciates prosperity who is caught in calamity." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

90. "Where there is discipline there is social order." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

91. "When man is perplexed god is beneficent." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

92. "What my heart desired didn't happen." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

93. "The seeker is the finder." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

94. "Flourish like a flower, but may your life be longer." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

95. "Don't stop a donkey that is not yours." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

96. "Hearing is never as good as seeing." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

97. "Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

98. "If you want to keep camels, have a big enough door." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

99. "Too many butchers ruined the cow." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

100. "The rose is a friend of the thorn." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

101. "As long as there are fools in the world no one will be penniless." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

102. "No one says his own buttermilk is sour." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

103. "Some men wonder over God's values, others over the cut of a garment." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

104. "Don't dig wells for others for you will fall into one yourself." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

105. "When god gives, he doesn't ask whose son a person is." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

106. "Appreciate great things." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

107. "Under his bowl there is a little bowl." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

108. "Give graciously, even an onion." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

109. "He ran out from under the leaking roof and set in the rain." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

110. "Between brother and brother accounts should be square." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

111. "Five fingers are brothers but not equals." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

112. "In bad things be slow; in good things be quick." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

113. "If a forest catches fire, both the dry and the wet will burn up." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

114. "A new servant can catch a running deer." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

115. "There are twenty-five uncaught sparrows for a penny." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

116. "Community is not created by force." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

117. "The right answer to a fool is silence." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

118. "Where your heart goes there your feet will go." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

119. "A lame crab walks straight." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

120. "A river is not contaminated by having a dog drink from it." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

121. "To speak ill of anyone is to speak ill of yourself." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

122. "As the sun's shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on earth." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

123. "There is a way from heart to heart." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

124. "The potter drink water from a broken jug." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

125. "What is a trumpeters job? To blow." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

126. "A lion at home, and a fox abroad." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

127. "I have never seen anyone go astray who followed along right path." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

128. "One gives by tons, but takes accounts by ounces." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

129. "If you sit beside a cooking pot; you will get black." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

130. "The wood is burnt, but the ashes are a nuisance." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

131. "Vinegar that is free, is sweeter than honey." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

132. "Ask the truth from a child." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

133. "What god wanted was really done." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

134. "On earth it's hard and heaven is far away." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

135. "Whatever you sow you reap." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

136. "Glory is fitting to god alone." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

137. "What you see in yourself is what you see in the world." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

138. "Try out your shoes on your feet, gauge people against their misfortune." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

139. "A tilted load won't reach its destination." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

140. "Where the heart would go, there follows the foot." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

141. "Forget the past, but look out in the future." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

142. "A liar is forgetful." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

143. "An old friend is like a saddled horse." (Afghan Sayings) Click to tweet