372 Persian Proverbs / Page 16
301. Trust in God -- but tie your camel tight.
302. Try it first and then say it's saltless.
303. Uneaten soup and burned mouth.
304. Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
305. Walls have mice and mice have ears.
306. Water does not trickle out of his hand.
307. Water has leaked under her/his skin.
308. Water is muddy at the fountainhead.
309. We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping.
310. We might've fallen from the horse, but not from the honor.
311. We're alive from lack of a shroud.
312. What can the enemy do when the friend is cordial.
313. What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind.
314. What my heart wanted didn't happen -- What God wanted, that happened.
315. What the thief stole has always been called expensive.
316. What you give away you keep.
317. What you've brought for me, take for your aunt.
318. Whatever I disliked, happened to me.
319. Whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue.
320. Whatever you eat will rot, whatever you give will blossom into a rose.