Collection of Turkish proverbs, sayings and popular sayings in Turkey translated into Italian, as a testament to the wisdom of this smoker but nice people.
Turkish idioms
- Do not trust Arabic even after forty years of his death.
- There is a lion in every heart.
- Not to love for fear of suffering is like not to live for fear of dying.
- The son inherits his father's property, not his name.
- A friend meets on black days.
- Anyone looking for a friend without flaws, remains without friends and finds only flaws.
- When the house is finished, death comes.
- Money opens all doors except those of heaven.
- It doesn't matter if you went the wrong way, go back.
- If you go crazy for one for forty days, it really ends up becoming one.
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- Look at the mother before marrying her daughter.
- A beggar is born from the marriage of two hungry people.
- Even if the fireplace is crooked, the smoke comes out straight.
- Anyone who has never been burned in the sun will not know the value of the shadow.
- Stretch your feet according to your blanket.
- Man is the canvas, the world is the meter that measures it.
- For the love of the rose, thorns are borne.
- Anyone who does not want a mother-in-law takes a wife or husband from the orphanage.
- The guilt, even if it is beautiful, nobody marries her.
- Stopping losses at any time is already a gain.
- Even if he has a golden saddle, the donkey is always a donkey.
- They asked the camel why his neck was curved and he replied: Is there anything in me that is straight?
- It is not shameful to ask, it is shameful not to know.
- Even the madman is afraid of the drunk.
- Goodness is man's greatest capital.
- Hope is the bread of the poor.
Turkish sayings
- After the wheel has broken, many will point you in the right direction.
- Nobody is rich enough not to need a neighbor.
- It is easy to invite someone, but it is difficult to ask them to leave.
- A deaf husband and a blind woman are a happy couple.
- It is more difficult to teach a camel to jump than to reason with a madman.
- Don't look for a calf under a bull.
- Coffee is black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love.
- Every man has his own way of eating yogurt.
- The rooster who crows too early cuts its head.
- If you burn your mouth while drinking too hot milk, you will be careful even when you eat yogurt.
- Children pour water on the street, their parents slip and fall into it.
- The liar's candle lasts only until evening.
- Coffee must be black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love.
- The one who did not help build the minaret, thinks it has just emerged from the ground.
- There are two things that cannot be looked at fixedly, they are the sun and death.
- Before loving learn to walk on the snow without leaving a trace.
- In a village with too many roosters, the morning comes late.
- The landlord is the guest's servant.
- If a dog's prayers were answered, the bones would rain from the sky.
- If there is to be listened to be the first, if there is to speak be the last.
- Whoever hurts another, also hurts himself.
- Anyone looking for a friend without flaws, remains without friends and finds only flaws.
- It is wise not the one who has lived a lot, but the one who has traveled a lot.
- A single cup of coffee brings forty years of friendship.
- Tell me who your friend is and I'll tell you who you are.
- Of the beautiful things, three are the most beautiful: the sound of water, woman and money.
- Beauty passes, wisdom remains.
Turkish proverbs
- Kiss the hand of the enemy until you can cut it off.
- Anyone who enters a Turkish bath sweats.
- A guest comes with ten gifts from heaven, eats one and leaves nine.
- In the eyes of the crow, his young ones look like hawks.
- A weapon is an enemy even for those who own it.
- Even if the mother-in-law was a cotton thread, falling off the shelf would break the daughter-in-law's head.
- What disturbs, oppresses and confuses men is not things, but the opinions of men themselves about things.
- Don't stay too low, the flood will take you away.Don't stay too high, the wind will blow you away.
- After dinner, you no longer appreciate the spoon.
- The father gave a vine to his son, the son did not give a single bunch of grapes to the father.
- The sheep separated from the flock eat wolves.
- If it depended on the donkey, it would not carry even a bunch of parsley.
- Summer is a lie, winter is a reality.
- Better seated than standing. Better lying down than sitting. Better dead than lying down.
- Do not reveal your secret to your friend, because he will also tell his friend.
- If you aim for a goal and on the way you stop to throw stones at every barking dog, you will never get to the goal.
- Indifference is a twin of cruelty.
- The woman leaves the house only in two situations: when she gets married and when she dies.
- Goodness is man's greatest capital.
- Moss and love cannot be hidden.
- A man is wise like his head, not like his years.
- Ten years of tyranny are less fatal than a night of anarchy.
- I gave birth to my son but not his heart.
- Do not hit two birds with one stone.
- The bride who does not want to dance says that the dance floor is too narrow.
