Take a close look at today, because yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is barely a vision.

More Sanskrit Proverbs

• Helping others is one step closer to God.
• The greatest hero is one who has control over his desires.
• Educating a person is the best charity.
• Sorrow for the death of a father lasts six months; sorrow for a mother, a year; sorrow for a wife, until another wife; sorrow for a son, forever.
• There are no rules to be followed in bad times.
• He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life’s pleasure is like a blacksmith’s bellows – he breathes but does not live.
• An elephant never tires of carrying his own trunk.
• Wisdom is the right measure of one’s strength.
• Wealth is a great attraction or Friends are plenty when the purse is full.
• There are three things that refresh the heart and reduce your grief water, flowers, and a beautiful woman.
• Coming events cast their shadow before.
• Silence could be used as a tool to accomplish things.
• A house without a child is like a tomb.
• One should save for a rainy day.
• Fruitful trees bend down; Likewise, the truly great are humble.
• Advice only serves to further instigate fools, not to quieten them.
• A woman’s appetite is twice that of a man’s; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times.
• As you sow, so shall you reap.
• Over-affection is apt to suspect evil.
• A bird in hand is better than two in the bush.
• Excess in all matters is to be avoided.
• Life is a cycle of happiness followed by sufferings and vice versa.
• Truth has but one color, a lie has many.
• If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a lad of mettle, an’ as soft as silk remains.
• Take a close look at today, because yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is barely a vision.
• Effort of hard work will never be wasted.
• Diligence is mother of good luck.