Persian Proverb quotes

" He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. " # Respectability # Flowers # Adversity

" Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son. " # Manners # Fathers # Friends and Friendship

" It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning. " # Common Sense

" The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. " # Beauty

" He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string. " # Experience # Fear # Food and Eating

" There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes. " # Life and Living # Debt # Sin

" Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. " # Death and Dying

" Epigrams succeed where epics fail. " # Aphorisms and Epigrams # Success # Failure

" The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. " # Memory # Writers and Writing # Kindness

" Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength. " # Wisdom