Armenian proverbs

Proverbs from all Armenian speaking parts of the world. Ա Արևն ամպի տակ չի մնայ։ Transliteration: Arevn ampi tak chi mnay. Translation: The sun won't stay behind the cloud. Meaning: The truth won't stay hidden and will come out. English equivalent: A lie has short legs. "Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well." Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912) 1986 Književnost Խ Խնձորը ծառից հեռու չի ընկնում։ Transliteration: Khndzorë tsarits' heru chi ënknum. Translation: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Meaning: Children observe daily and — in their behaviour — often follow the example of their parents. Այգեկցի, Ավագյան 2004 Առյուծը, աղվեսնուարջը: Առակ: Նախադպր. եւկրտսերդպր. տարիքիհամար Արեւիկ 16 Source for meaning: Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 259 527 1-875943-44-7 Կ Կարմիր կովը կաշին չի փոխի։ Transliteration: Karmir kovë kashin chi p'okhi. Translation: The red cow won't change his hide. Meaning: Some people don't change. Hagopian, Gayané V. Armenian Proverbs and the Biblical Scripture 7 https://www.csun.edu/~ghagopian/Documents/OriginalArmenianProverbsandtheBiblicalScripture.pdf Ո Ուշ լինի, (ա)նուշ լինի։ Ush lini, (a)nush lini.Translation: Let it be late, let it be good. Meaning: It does not matter if something takes long to complete, as long as the end result is desirable. Pinter 2006 Art, Truth \& Politics: The Nobel Lecture Faber \& Faber 24 0571233961 Literature Armenian Proverbs and Sayings, Translated into English by R. Gevorg Bayyan, Academy of St. Lazarus, Venice, 1889. (Alternative link) Bläsing, Uwe. The state of Armenian paremiology and its future tasks. Iran and the the Caucusus 7:1-2: 195-207. Sakayan, Dora. 1999. On Reported and Direct Speech in Proverbs. Dialogue Proverbs in Armenian. Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship'' Vol. 16, 1999, pp. 303–324. Armenian Proverbs and the Biblical Scripture, Gayané V. Hagopian, California State University, Northridge. The Antiquity of Proverbs: Fifty Familiar Proverbs and Folk Sayings with Annotations and Lists of Connected Forms, Found in All Parts of the World, Dwight Edwards Marvin, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1922. Category:Proverbs by language proverbs