77 Armenian Proverbs / Page 3
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Priest on the outside, Satan on the inside.42.
Quiet horses kick the hardest.43.
Stand away from dwarfs, for it's God who hit them on the head.44.
Tears have meaning but only he who sheds them understands.45.
The bee gets honey from the same flower where the snake sucks her poison.46.
The butterfly who settles on a branch is afraid that he will break it.47.
The dowry that a woman brings is like a bell; every time she passes by she hits you with the clapper.48.
The eagle was killed by an arrow made from its own feathers.49.
The friend who helps me and the enemy who does me no harm, make a pair of earrings.50.
The gravity of the earth is so strong that the old grey man walks crooked.51.
The only sword that never rests is the tongue of a woman.52.
The stones of my native country are warmer than the ovens of Babylon.53.
The tongue of the fool is always long.54.
The voice of the people is louder than the boom of a canon.55.
The water in which one drowns is always an ocean.56.
The wolf is upset about what he left behind, and the shepherd is upset about what he took away.57.
The woman who loves her husband corrects his faults; the man that loves his wife exaggerates them.58.
The world is a pot, man but a spoon in it.59.
There is no reason for war that reasonable men can't settle. Clouds and thunder don't always result in rain. A small cloud can hide the sun and the moon.60.
They asked a bullfrog, "Why do you croak all the time?" He replied, "I'm enchanted with my voice."