Give even an onion graciously
Afghan Proverb
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AFGHAN PROVERB A little water is a sea to an ant
AFGHAN PROVERB When the tiger kills, the jackal profits
AFGHAN PROVERB The person sins, then blames Satan for it
AFGHAN PROVERB If you think you're leading and no one is following you, then you're only taking a walk.
AFGHAN PROVERB The right answer to a fool is silence
AFGHAN PROVERB Blood cannot be washed out with blood.
AFGHAN PROVERB Water which is too pure has no fish
AFGHAN PROVERB If you deal in camels, make the doors high
AFGHAN PROVERB Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
J. C. MACAULAY It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH My heart was an onion making me cry.
ERIC PUCHNER Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS Life is like an onion. Why is life like an onion? Because you peel away layer after layer and when y...
YIDDISH PROVERB Life is an onion and one peels it crying
FRENCH PROVERB Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
PROVERB Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
FRENCH PROVERB My wallet is like an onion, opening it makes me cry.
ANONYMOUS Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'Universi...
KARL PILKINGTON An Apple a day keeps the doctor away.But . . . an onion a day keeps
everyone away.
UNKNOWN It?s a comfort feeling for anyone who gets an afghan.
BARBARA MOQUIN A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
HAMID KARZAI Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry.
CARL SANDBURG I tried to render the Afghan war as much as I could fro the perspective of the Afghans. I have serve...
ELLIOT ACKERMAN A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE He fasted for a whole year and then broke his fast with an onion
ARABIAN PROVERB This whole thing is like an onion. The more you peel, the more you cry.
DAVID LIPSCHUTZ The Western media has depicted the Afghan woman as a helpless, weak individual. I have said it befor...
RULA GHANI Life is like an onion. You peel it off layer by layer and sometimes you cry.
UNKNOWN Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.
SONYA LEVIEN Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.
JULIETTE BINOCHE A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS Shushtari proverb “Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it’s a hollow walnut shell.�...
FIROOZEH DUMAS Never give a sucker an even break.
W. C. FIELDS Grant graciously what you dare not refuse
GEORGE H. GALLUP An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
WILL ROGERS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS And each time, people in the Wabash Valley stepped up to the plate. They graciously gave what they w...
CAROL STEVENS As the Afghan constitution affords freedom of religion to all Afghan citizens, we hope very much tha...
NICHOLAS BURNS A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great...
AZITA GHANIZADA I'm a believer in the Afghan people, so I support an increase in forces there.
STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS A favour is half granted, when graciously refused.
JONATHAN SWIFT Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
CARL SANDBURG Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
CARL SANDBURG Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
CARL SANDBERG An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
WILL ROGERS Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep
CARL SANDBURG When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced ...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
WILL ROGERS It's the old proverb: 'It is better to give than to receive.' Without knowing it, I had brought alon...
ETHAN ZOHN Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
JAMES HUNEKER Emperor? You old fake! / You're no Emperor. You're just an onion. / Now then, little Peer, I'm going...
HENRIK IBSEN Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it
JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.
HOWARD CARTER I'm like an onion. You can peel away my layers, but the further you go, the more it'll make you cry.
LAURA CARSTAIRS-WATERS The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NA...
RICHARD ENGEL Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We are not in Afghanistan because girls were not allowed to go to school, but helping them do so wil...
BOB AINSWORTH Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
CHIEF JOSEPH Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all ma...
DERRICK JENSEN This is the unpeeling of the onion. His campaign should be prepared for it.
LARRY CEISLER The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb Lawless are they th...
SPANISH PROVERB America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb...
ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG Afghan people are just so tired of war.
KHALED HOSSEINI The damn thing is layered like a frozen onion.
JOSEPH VEVERKA Treat all men alike. Give them all the same laws. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.
CHIEF JOSEPH Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
MAE WEST Our patriarchal society does not like to hear this voice, it's a voice that even Afghan politicians ...
SHUKRIA BARAKZAI Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON By looking at the sun at different wavelengths, we can peel off the different layers in the (solar) ...
PAAL BREKKE The Afghan people have done their job. Now the international community must come and provide alterna...
HAMID KARZAI It is in the best interest of Afghan people if the election is held in a peaceful environment. A pea...
CINDY MOORE The Afghan people do not take kindly to conquerors.
DAVID PETRAEUS you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take...
PAULO COELHO …for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the D...
GEORGE Q. CANNON
for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the De...
GEORGE Q. CANNON When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fe...
NARENDRA MODI Train up a child in such a way she or he should go; even when she or he is old she or he will not de...
SANTOSH AVVANNAVAR If by ‘graciously volunteered,’ you mean ‘was threatened and coerced,’ then yes, I did,
RACHEL HAWKINS Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
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AFGHAN PROVERB If you think you're leading and no one is following you, then you're only taking a walk.
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PROVERB The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
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PROVERB Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
PROVERB When at a loss how to go on, cough.
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PROVERB Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
PROVERB The less people think the more they talk.
PROVERB Speak little and to the purpose.
PROVERB Speak and the man shall be shown.
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PROVERB A little body often harbors a great soul.
PROVERB Life without a friend is death without a witness.
PROVERB The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
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PROVERB He has hard work who has nothing to do.
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PROVERB Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
PROVERB An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
PROVERB Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
PROVERB Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
PROVERB Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
PROVERB Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
PROVERB The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
PROVERB Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
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PROVERB Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
PROVERB He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
PROVERB There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
PROVERB Live to live and you will learn to live.
PROVERB Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
PROVERB What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
PROVERB Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
PROVERB He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
PROVERB We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB One of these days, is none of these days.
PROVERB Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
PROVERB Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
PROVERB Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
PROVERB Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
PROVERB None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
PROVERB Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
PROVERB Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
PROVERB Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
PROVERB When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
PROVERB One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
PROVERB No one can pray well, but those who live well.
PROVERB Short prayers reach heaven.
PROVERB People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
PROVERB Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
PROVERB Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
PROVERB Practice is the best master.
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PROVERB He who pays the piper calls the tune.
PROVERB Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
PROVERB A poor man is all schemes.
PROVERB When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
PROVERB Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
PROVERB Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
PROVERB When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
PROVERB Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
PROVERB There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
PROVERB Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
PROVERB Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
PROVERB Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
PROVERB Why kill time when one can employ it.
PROVERB Forever is a long bargain.
PROVERB The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
PROVERB Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
PROVERB Time and I against any two.
PROVERB The longest day soon comes to an end.
PROVERB Soon enough is well enough.
PROVERB Now is the watchword of the wise.
PROVERB Lost time is never found again.
PROVERB Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
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PROVERB Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
PROVERB In teaching others we teach ourselves.
PROVERB He who does not research has nothing to teach.
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PROVERB He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
PROVERB No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
PROVERB Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
PROVERB Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
PROVERB Who has a trade may go anywhere.
PROVERB No one was ever lost on a straight road.
PROVERB Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
PROVERB He that falls by himself never cries.
PROVERB More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
PROVERB Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
PROVERB That which proves too much, proves nothing!
PROVERB When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
PROVERB If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
PROVERB The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
PROVERB Never say die.
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PROVERB If you wish for peace be ready for war.
PROVERB When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
PROVERB Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
PROVERB Peace with a club in hand is war.
PROVERB If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
PROVERB Rome was not built in a day.
PROVERB Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
PROVERB Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
PROVERB Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
PROVERB Patience is the key to paradise.
PROVERB There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
PROVERB Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
PROVERB Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
PROVERB That which is escaped now is pain to come.
PROVERB A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
PROVERB Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
PROVERB It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
PROVERB Riches have wings.
PROVERB A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
PROVERB As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
PROVERB You can't take it with you when you go.
PROVERB After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
PROVERB To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
PROVERB The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
PROVERB Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
PROVERB Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
PROVERB No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
PROVERB The gods sell all things at a fair price.
PROVERB Something you don't want is dear at any price.
PROVERB We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
PROVERB Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
PROVERB Necessity unites.
PROVERB A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
PROVERB It is the truth that irritates a person.
PROVERB If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
PROVERB Time tries truth.
PROVERB Tell the truth and then run.
PROVERB Truth is the daughter of time.
PROVERB Truth fears nothing but concealment.
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