Afghan Proverbs, Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
38 Afghan Proverbs
A lame crab walks straight.
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A little water is a sea to an ant.
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A porcupine speaking to its baby says, "O my child of velvet."
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A river is not contaminated by having a dog drink from it.
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Allah has said, "Start moving so that I may start blessing."
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Blood cannot be washed out with blood.
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Blood is thick than water.
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Blood will have blood.
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Blood will tell.
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Bloom where you are planted.
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Cats don't catch mice to please God.
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Debt severs love.
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Don't be a thief and you won't fear the king.
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Don't show me the palm tree, show me the dates.
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Five fingers are brothers but not equals.
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Five of them would run from the bang of one empty gun.
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Give even an onion graciously.
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Give every man his due.
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Having been bitten by a snake, he's afraid of a rope.
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If a forest catches fire, both the dry and the wet will burn up.
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If you deal in camels, make the doors high.
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If you want to keep camels, have a big enough door.
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In an ant colony dew is a flood.
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It's the same donkey, but with a new saddle.
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No one says his own buttermilk is sour.
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