372 Persian Proverbs / Page 5
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Everyone thinks his own spit tastes good.82.
Expect trust from a dog but not from a woman.83.
Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.84.
Fear those who do not fear God.85.
First goblet and then drunkenness.86.
First prove your brotherhood, then claim inheritance.87.
Flies will easily fly into the honey -- their problem is how to get out.88.
Flies will never leave the shop of a sweetmaker.89.
For an ant to have wings would be his undoing.90.
For crystal rain falls from black clouds.91.
For his master the dog is a lion.92.
Forgiveness hides a pleasure that you can't get back from revenge.93.
Four walls make a man free.94.
From afar he takes the heart, from nearby the gall-bladder.95.
From sudden desire of halim he fell in the pot.96.
From this column to that column may be a relief.97.
From truth to falsehood there's a four-finger distance.98.
From you motion, from God blessing.99.
Get along with the village headman, plunder the village.100.
Give nine, save ten.