Don’t count on the chicken before they hatch.

More Sri Lankan Proverbs

• Sin is sin whether big or small.
• Use the small fish as bait to catch the bigger fish.
• Tell the defect to get more quantity.
• Don’t believe everything you hear, and don’t tell everything you believe.
• A good tongue is a good weapon.
• If the cow gives milk as a healthy food, why ask whether she is black or white?
• When the mother dies the father becomes an uncle.
• An enemy’s punishment is his envy.
• If the devil is your godfather you will be welcome in hell.
• The more one has, the more one wants.
• The bird that flies from branch to branch will end up getting drenched.
• You would do better to be someone’s victim rather than someone’s certainty.
• For he who has the time even the jungle is a paradise.
• It’s the rain that fills the rivers not the dew.
• Wisdom can be found travelling.
• Only the cure you believe in cures.
• He who has studied himself is his own master.
• You can buy everything, except a father and a mother.
• Desire never stops, it increases even after satisfaction.
• The one who teaches is the giver of eyes.
• Our shadow will follow us.
• You cannot justify a crime by saying its very small crime.
• Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
• Faith in medicine makes it effective.
• Don’t count on the chicken before they hatch.
• A good husband might have a bad wife, and a bad wife might have a good husband.