Alertness and courage are life’s shields.

More Indian Proverbs

• 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.
• Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
• 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.
• There are three uncertainties: woman, wind, and wealth.
• 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.