More Indian Proverbs
- If you are up to your knees in pleasure, then you are up to your waist in grief.
- Don’t eat your bread on someone Else’s table.
- You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.
- To give jewels to a donkey is as stupid as giving a eunuch to a woman.
- To loan is to buy troubles.
- A man without a woman is only half a man.
- When money is not a servant it is a master.
- He that is bald headed has no need for a comb.
- Every dog is a tiger in his own street.
- Poverty destroys all virtues.
- Never do tomorrow, what you can do today.
- Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision.
- What is now in the past was once in the future.
- A man without money is like a bow without arrows.
- War is to men, childbirth is to women.
- Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
- Death is a camel which sleeps in everyone’s house.
- Don’t delay today’s work until tomorrow.
- Happy is the woman whose husband does not speak to her.
- A man without a woman is only half a man.
- The worst kind of poverty is to have many debts.
- They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.
- A monkey that amuses me is better than a deer astray.
- A known mistake is better than an unknown truth.
- Better to have a diamond with a few small flaws than a rock that is perfect.
- Every one looking downwards becomes impressed with ideas of his own greatness, but looking upwards, he feels his own littleness.
- Alertness and courage are life’s shields.