_Quotes

Necessity turns lion into fox. - Persian proverb, as quoted in The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970) edited by Rhoda Thomas Tripp, p. 428 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Necessity

Az in guš mi-girad, az ân guš dar mi-konad. Translation: In at one ear and out at the other. English equivalent: Advice most needed are the least heeded. Meaning: "For various reasons a good advice or a genuine warning is often disregarded or considered of no importance." Source for meaning and proverb: Paczolay, Gyula (1997). European Proverbs in 55 languages. DeProverbio.com. p. 179. ISBN 1-875943-44-7. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Persian_proverbs