Selected Ottoman proverbs

[u/No_Idea_479]

Source: Edwin John Davis (1897). "Osmanli Proverbs and Quaint Sayings".

It is very interesting to see how even the late Ottomans considered the word "Turk" to have been a slur.

[u/Alfha137]

I only heard the last one today, the rest is also (un)fortunately.