أمثال حول العالم

[Mr.Shaaban]

• One finger cannot lift a pebble. (Iranian)
• When elephants battle, the ants perish. (Cambodian
• If you chase two hares, you will not catch either. (Russian)
• The pot calls the kettle black. (United States)The sieve says to the needle: You have a hole in your tail. (Pakistan)
• It is better to turn back than to get lost. (Russian)
• Handsome words don't butter cabbage. (German)
• Talk does not cook rice. (Chinese)
• After the rain, there is no need for an umbrella. (Bulgaria)
• When the kettle boils over, it overflows its own sides. (Yiddish)
• You can't chew with somebody else's teeth. (Yiddish)
• Mistrust is an axe at the tree of love. (Russian)
• If a farmer becomes a King, he will still carry a basket on his back. (Hebrew)
• Not all that is black is charcoal. (Philippine)
• Little brooks make great rivers. (French)
• Every kind of animal can be tamed, but not the tongue of man. (Philippine)
• Do not look for apples under a poplar tree. (Slovakian)
• Every ass loves to hear himself bray. (English)
• He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns. (English)
• Better to be a free bird than a captive King. (Danish)
• A blow passes on, a spoken word lingers. (Yiddish)
• You can't spit on my back and make me think it's rain. (Yiddish)
• A book gives knowledge, but it is life that gives understanding. (Hebrew)
• A crooked branch has a crooked shadow. (Japanese)
• Better bread with water than cake with trouble. (Russian)
• The heaviest burden is an empty pocket. (Yiddish)
• A candle lights others but consumes itself. (English)
• It takes a village to raise a child. (Africa)
• It is one thing to cackle and another to lay an egg. (Ecuador)
• One dog barks because it sees something; a hundred dogs bark because they heard the first dog bark. (Chinese)
• To hide one lie, a thousand lies are needed. (India)
• A needle wrapped in a rag will be found in the end. (Vietnamese)
• Do not seek to escape from the flood by clinging to a tiger's tail. (Chinese)
• Step by step one ascends the staircase. (Turkey)
• Little by little the cotton thread becomes a loincloth. (Africa-Dahomey)
• Anger is a bad adviser. (Hungary)
• Eggs must not quarrel with stones. (Jamaican)
• Eyes can see everything except themselves. (Serbo-Croatian)
• Haste makes waste. (English)
• Every hill has its valley. (Italian

[فؤاد شريف]

جزاك الله خيرا يا مستر شعبان
كلام جميل و الله