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Kashmiri proverbs are proverbs in the Kashmiri language, spoken Kashmir. The best available source for the study of these proverbs is a book by Sh. Omkar N. Koul, A Dictionary of Kashmiri Proverbs. It was first published in 1992, then a second edition was published in 2005, and is now available online.

Kashmiri proverbs come in a variety of grammatical forms, such as:

simple statements: "An apple gets its colour from another apple."

conjoined phrases: "(She) came to visit the shopkeeper but went to visit a baker instead."

dialogues: "Mother, no one abuses me." "Son, go and sit on the road."

wellerism: "The horse has said, “I will help you to go up the steep, but you lead me down the slope."

rhetorical question: "How will a lamp help a blind person in the dark?"

sentence fragments: "With short hands and long tongue."

courtesy - wikipedia 

- Kashmiri proverbs

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