Armenian ProverbsDefinitions

Advice is plentiful when the cart breaks down.

Appearance is often deceiving — everything round isn’t an apple.

A Beard is no sign of wisdom — if there were wisdom in beards, all goats would be prophets

Character is unalterable — warm up a frozen snake and she will bite you

Equality of outcome is wrong — The five fingers are not all equal.

Exaggeration is human nature — The water in which I drown I call an ocean.

Habit is adopted when young — Youth carves on stone; old age on ice.

Kindness is not to be offered to the cruel — warm up a frozen snake and she will bite you

The Miser is the real poor.

Struggle is subjective — The water in which I drown I call an ocean.