A dog always bites under the knee.

More Indian Proverbs

• A man without money is like a bow without arrows.
• A house without children is a graveyard.
• A friend advises in his interest, not yours.
• Deceive me about the price but not about the goods.
• Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water.
• When you drink milk under the palm tree, people will say that it is palm wine.
• Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other to exist.
• He who has a true friend, has no need of a mirror.
• Learning is a treasure no thief can touch.
• He that is bald headed has no need for a comb.
• Every dog is a tiger in his own street.
• Poverty destroys all virtues.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.