Fruitful trees bend down; Likewise, the truly great are humble.

More Sanskrit Proverbs

• 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.
• The passage of time is indeed not straight
• There are none so deaf as those who will not hear advice.
• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
• There is no bigger virtue than compassion.
• A wise man gives at once, a wiser man at once refuses.
• A good well-lived today makes every yesterday a dream of a good future, and every morning is a vision of hope.
• A fool who knows he is a fool has a little intelligence, but a fool that thinks he is intelligent is really a fool.
• Virtues, even in an enemy should be acknowledged; Defects even in a Guru ought to be pointed out; Always, and with all endeavor should the son and the scholar be taught wisdom.
• Perseverance, daring, courage, wisdom, strength and valour – Where these six are, there is God.
• If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.
• They do not know their own defects, who search for the defects of others.
• The virtuous make good their promise.