زرنگی بهتر از دلیری است. باتور: دلیر. آدیر: زرنگ و هوشیار.

Alertness is better than bravery. Discretion is the better part of valour. * He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day. *It’s better to be coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

بیم و ترس بلا سختر از مواجه شدن با همان بلا است.

It’s better to be in a calamity rather than being in fear of its coming. Fear of death is worse than death itself

با تنبان دیگری نمیتوان خود را پوشاند و گرم نگهداشت. خودکفایی جاگزین ندارد.

You can’t cover yourself by someone else’s pajama. A borrowed garment never fits well.

To change the street is better than changing words.

Pouring oil on the fire isn’t the way to quench it.

A soft answer turns away wrath

He rose from under the leaking roof and sat in the rain.

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

When the word has gone out of the mouth, it shall spread through out the world.

Don’t let the right hand know what the left hand is up to.

Don’t tell tales out of school.

The city of Rome got burned due to one evil person

One rotten apple spoils the barrel.

Don’t try to stop your livelihood.

Don’t quarrel with your bread and butter.

He places the bit under the tail of the horse.

Don’t put the cart before the horse.

A spark flew from the dirt clod.

A fool may give a wise man counsel.

Be afraid of a person that isn’t scared of God.

Don’t trust the person that doesn’t trust God.

If You won’t die of eating less, you shall die of eating bad (things)

I saw few die of hunger, of eating, a hundred thousand.

Gluttony kills more than a sword.

Do as a clergy says, but not as he does.

Do as the friar says, not as he does.

Do as I say, not as I do.

From saying to doing is a long way.

From word to deed is a great distance.

By any hand you give, from the same you will receive.

He that mischief hatches, mischief catches.

One flower can’t make spring.

One swallow doesn’t make a summer.

The Hazaras imitate one another.

One sheep follows another.

One’s camel won’t always make walnut droppings.

Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door.

When opportunity knocks, be ready to answer.

آنچه را دیدی گویا ندیدی.

خداوندا بحق هشت و چارت؛ زما بگذر شتر دیدی نیدی (بابا طاهر)

Did you see camel? No.

There is nothing like being on the safe side.

A good name keeps its lustre in the dark.

A good name is to be more desired than great riches; favor is better than silver or gold.