41 Azerbaijani Proverbs / Page 2
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Mullah is sick when poor dies.22.
Never mind storms and snows for the sake of a friend.23.
One's own simple bread is much better than someone else's pilaf.24.
Overtakes whom gets, and stones whom doesn't.25.
Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed.26.
Politeness is not sold in the bazaar.27.
Saying "halva-halva" won't make your mouth sweet.28.
Shameful is not the one who doesn't know, but the one who doesn't ask.29.
Smart bird gets trapped in its beak.30.
Someone's end, someone's beginning.31.
Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.32.
The forest can't be without its jackals.33.
To tell the dog to catch, and the rabbit to run.34.
Tongue may muddle up and say the truth.35.
Tree would bend when it bears fruit.36.
Unearned riches have no goods.37.
Until spring comes, nightingales do not sing.38.
Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.39.
Wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.40.
Without sowing a single wheat you would not harvest thousand ones.