154 Kurdish Proverbs / Page 14
- 131. Those who know do not talk; those who talk do not know.
 - 132. Time is like a dagger; if you don't cut with it, it cuts you. Go ahead and cut. Be quick before it cuts you.
 - 133. To find your place in life is easier than to occupy it.
 - 134. To have a hut built from mud here is better than a palace made from gold and marble on the Arabian Gulf.
 - 135. To speak is to sow; to listen is to reap.
 - 136. What is loaned goes away smiling but returns weeping.
 - 137. What matters is the menu on the table now.
 - 138. What the heart thinks, the mouth speaks.
 - 139. What you give away you keep.
 - 140. When a bald man dies the mourners give him curly hair as a present.

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