457 Turkish Proverbs / Page 14
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Property will not earn life, but life will earn property.262.
Salt water and absence wash away love.263.
Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door.264.
Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door.265.
Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond.266.
Sharp vinegar only damages its container.267.
Sighs never fall on the ground.268.
Silence is music to a wise man.269.
Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood.270.
Speak of the dog, but take the stick into your hand.271.
Stick the needle into yourself before you thrust needles into others.272.
Study from new books but from old teachers.273.
Tell a lie on Saturday and you will be ashamed on Sunday.274.
Tell me who your friend is, and I will tell you who you are.275.
The account of the donkey is different from that of the donkey-man.276.
The baker's child goes hungry.277.
The bear knows seven songs and they are all about honey.278.
The brave is known by his fame.279.
The bride who brings a golden throne will sit on it herself.280.
The buyer of the rotten beans is the blind man.