More Indian Proverbs
- The eyes do not see what the mind does not want.
- He who does not climb, will not fall either.
- Dependence on another is perpetual disappointment.
- Patience is the most beautiful prayer.
- Regularity is the best medicine.
- What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.
- When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
- No strength within, no respect without.
- Certain things capture the eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.
- Life is a bridge, cross over it, but build no house on it.
- No one was ever lost on a straight road.
- Fish and guests smell when they are three days old.
- If they don’t exchange a few words, father and son will never know one another.
- Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work.
- If you live on the river, befriend the crocodile.
- For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
- To sing to the deaf, to talk with the dumb, and to dance for the blind are three foolish things.
- Walking slowly, even the donkey will reach Lhasa.
- There are three uncertainties: woman, wind, and wealth.
- It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.
- Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
- Where the needle goes, the thread follows.
- It is easy to forget a kindness, but one remembers unkindness.
- Whoever eats a pancake never counts the holes in it.
- If a man from humble beginnings gets rich, he will carry his umbrella at midnight.
- Fish and guests smell when they are three days old.
- When a camel is at the foot of a mountain only then judge his height.