If you live on the river, befriend the crocodile.

More Indian Proverbs

• Life is a bridge, cross over it, but build no house on it.
• No one was ever lost on a straight road.
• Fish and guests smell when they are three days old.
• If they don’t exchange a few words, father and son will never know one another.
• Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work.
• If you live on the river, befriend the crocodile.
• For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
• To sing to the deaf, to talk with the dumb, and to dance for the blind are three foolish things.
• Walking slowly, even the donkey will reach Lhasa.
• There are three uncertainties: woman, wind, and wealth.
• It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.
• Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
• Where the needle goes, the thread follows.
• It is easy to forget a kindness, but one remembers unkindness.
• Whoever eats a pancake never counts the holes in it.
• If a man from humble beginnings gets rich, he will carry his umbrella at midnight.
• Fish and guests smell when they are three days old.
• When a camel is at the foot of a mountain only then judge his height.
• Don’t eat your bread on someone else’s table.
• Never stand in front of a judge or behind a donkey.
• Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
• Great minds discuss ideas, medium minds discuss events, and little minds discuss people.
• Something done at the wrong time should be regarded as not done.
• To control the mind is like trying to control a drunken monkey that has been bitten by a scorpion.
• The money you dream about will not pay your bills.
• Use medicine as well as prayers.
• Be careful for deep water and dogs that do not bark.