When money is not a servant it is a master.

More Indian Proverbs

• Poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets.
• A guilty conscience is a hidden enemy.
• Better a hundred enemies outside the house than one inside.
• Only two things matter in this world: a son and a daughter.
• Any water in the desert will do.
• If you are up to your knees in pleasure, then you are up to your waist in grief.
• A hundred divine epochs would not suffice to describe all the marvels of the Himalaya.
• The money you dream about will not pay your bills.
• Speak like a parrot; meditate like a swan; chew like a goat; and bathe like an elephant.
• One and one sometimes make eleven.
• Pull someone by the ears and his head will follow.
• Every dog is a tiger in his own street.
• When you have an ass for a friend, expect nothing but kicks.
• A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
• Pearls are of no value in a desert.
• Faith keeps the world going.
• One finger can’t lift a pebble.
• Consult the wise and do not disobey him.
• The spouse of a woman is a man, the spouse of a man is his livelihood.
• It is little use to dig a well after the house has caught fire.
• What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.
• Love from someone who is bad is worse than his hatred.
• Where the needle goes, the thread follows.
• In a tree that you can’t climb, there are always a thousand fruits.
• A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
• The eyes do not see what the mind does not want.
• True happiness lies in giving it to others.