154 Kurdish Proverbs / Page 7
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The Kurds have no friends.122.
The male is born to be slaughtered.123.
The man is a river, the woman a lake.124.
The miser and the open-handed spend the same in long run.125.
The only friends we have are the mountains.126.
The rich man's wealth tires the poor man's jaw.127.
The wolf repents only in death.128.
Thorns and roses grow on the same tree.129.
Those away from the battlefield boast about their swords.130.
Those who do not go to war roar like lions.131.
Those who know do not talk; those who talk do not know.132.
Time is like a dagger; if you don't cut with it, it cuts you. Go ahead and cut. Be quick before it cuts you.133.
To find your place in life is easier than to occupy it.134.
To have a hut built from mud here is better than a palace made from gold and marble on the Arabian Gulf.135.
To speak is to sow; to listen is to reap.136.
What is loaned goes away smiling but returns weeping.137.
What matters is the menu on the table now.138.
What the heart thinks, the mouth speaks.139.
What you give away you keep.140.
When a bald man dies the mourners give him curly hair as a present.