Proverbs
366 Proverbs with their Urdu Meanings and Examples
Hope springs eternal.
People never give up hope.
Similar is: 'While there's life, there's hope.'
A drowning man will clutch at straws.
ڈوبتے کو تنکے کا سہارا
If you are in a hopeless situation, you will try anything to get out of it - even if your chances of success are very, very small.
To 'clutch' something is to take hold of it tightly.
Tomorrow is another day.
Maybe things will not be so bad tomorrow.
Fish and guests smell in three days.
دو دن کا مہمان تیسرے دن کا بے ایمان
If you visit someone, do not stay too long.
Similar is: 'Do not wear out your welcome' or 'Do not outstay your welcome.'
Who comes uncalled, sits unserved.
مان نہ مان میں تیرا مہمان
If you visit someone unannounced, do not expect to receive food.
Hunger is the best sauce.
Everything tastes good when you are hungry.
Hunger breaks stone walls.
The hungry will do anything to get food.
The devil finds work for idle hands to do.
If you are bored, you are more likely to do something foolish or criminal.
'Idle' means 'bored, lazy'.
What you don't know can't hurt you.
Ignorance protects.
Similar is: 'What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.'
If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch.
Do not follow or believe anyone who is equally as ignorant as you.
This proverb is from the bible.
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