457 Turkish Proverbs / Page 13
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One bad experience is worth more than a thousand threats.242.
One by one we count the beans.243.
One cannot eat the meat of every bird.244.
One eats while another watches -- that is how revolutions are begun.245.
One eats, another watches; that's how revolutions are born.246.
One hour of justice is worth seventy hours of prayer.247.
One must ask about the delight of opium from one who smokes it.248.
One must fill the pitcher while the water is flowing.249.
One night with an ugly woman and one day in the mountains both are like an eternity.250.
One scabbed sheep will taint a whole flock.251.
One searches for someone else's donkey while singing songs.252.
One who handles honey, licks his fingers.253.
One who sows wind will reap hurricane.254.
Order the lazybones a task and let him give you advice.255.
Others are always interested in us, just as we are interested in them.256.
Out of ten men there are nine wives.257.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.258.
Patience is the key to paradise.259.
Pot, your bottom is black. "Yours is blacker than me."260.
Poverty is a shirt of fire.