The cock goes to town for only four days and returns home a peacock.
More Indian Proverbs:
He that is baldheaded has no need of combs.Indian
It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.
Indian
A doctor is only a doctor when he has killed one or two patients.
Indian
To give jewels to a donkey is as stupid as giving a eunuch to a woman.
Indian
Only two things matter in this world: a son and a daughter.
Indian
Sorrow for the death of a father lasts six months; sorrow for a mother, a year; sorrow for a wife, until another wife; sorrow for a son, forever.
Indian