Indian Proverbs (394 Proverbs)
- An adder with its poisonous fangs taken out is nothing more than a piece of rope.
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- A man without a woman is only half a man.
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- A blind man sat behind a pile of stones and thought that nobody could see him.
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- By slitting the ears and cutting the tail, a dog is still a dog, not a horse, not an ass.
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- All we can hold in our cold dead hands is what we have given away.
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- A man laughs at others and weeps for himself.
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- A beggar himself, can he afford to have one asking for alms at his door?
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- By joining the tail to the trunk one makes up the whole elephant.
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- All the water in the sea doesn't even reach the knees of the man who fears not death.
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- A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field.
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- A beautiful woman belongs to everyone; an ugly one is yours alone.
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- Brains are not to be found in the beard.
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- Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.
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- A lot of people become saints because of their stomach.
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- Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults.
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- A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times.
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- A lie has no author, nor a liar a conscience.
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- Can't tell his ass from a hole in the ground.
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- Better to have a diamond with a few small flaws than a rock that is perfect.
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- After eating nine hundred rats, the cat is now going on a pilgrimage.
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- A lawyer's fee and a harlot's wages are paid in advance.
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- Where the sun shines, there is also shade.
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- What good is giving sugar to the dead?
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- These three take crooked ways: carts, boats, and musicians.
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- The voice of the poor has no echo.
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- The hot sun melts away the snow; when anger comes, does wisdom go.
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- The baby is not yet born, and yet you say that his nose is like his grandfather's.
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- Only the hunchback himself knows how he can lie comfortably.
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- Love is a crocodile in the river of desire.
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- It is easy to forget a kindness, but one remembers unkindness.
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- If a man's heart be impure, all things will appear hostile to him.
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- He who dreams for too long will become like his shadow.
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- Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny.
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- You cannot cook one half of the chicken and leave the other lay eggs.
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- When you have an ass for a friend, expect nothing but kicks.
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- What does the blind man know of the beauty of the tulip?
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- These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.
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- The tree casts its shadow on everything, even upon the woodcutter.
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- The heart at rest sees a feast in everything.
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- The ambitious one makes friends with the elephant, then tramples upon the ant.
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- Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.
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- Love from someone who is bad is worse than his hatred.
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- It is better to walk than to run; it is better to stand than to walk; it is better to sit than to stand; it is better to lie than to sit.
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- If you are up to your knees in pleasure, then you are up to your waist in grief.
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- He who does not climb, will not fall either.
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- Every man is the guardian of his own honor.
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- You can only lean against that which resists.
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- When you drink milk under the palm tree, people will say that it is palm wine.
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- We are both queens, so who will hang out the laundry?
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- There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
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- The tongue is safe; even among thirty teeth.
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- The hands of a lawyer are always in someone's pocket.
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- Take a close look at today, because yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is barely a vision.
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- One of the two partners always bites the best part of the apple.
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- Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work.
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- It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.
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- IF you are buying a cow, make sure that the price of the tail is included.
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- He who answers is inferior to the one who asks the question.
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- Every dog is a tiger in his own street.
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- You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.
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- When you are in difficulty, go to the house of your friend -- not your sister's.
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- War is to a man what bed is to a woman.
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- There is enmity between to dig and to let dig.
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- The tip of a finger cannot be touched by itself.
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- The grown-up pays attention to what you are doing; the child sees beyond that.
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- 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.
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- One man's house burns so that another may warm himself.
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- Life is like the flame of a lamp; it needs a little oil now and then.
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- It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.
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- If a man from humble beginnings gets rich, he will carry his umbrella at midnight.
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- He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.
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- Eating while seated makes one of large size; eating while standing makes one strong.
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- You can never enter the same river twice.
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- When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
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- Undeserved punishment is better than that which is deserved.
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- There is a great uproar made about the debt of a poor man.
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- The thief that is not caught is a king.
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- The greatest hero is one who has control over his desires.
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- Something done at the wrong time should be regarded as not done.
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- One man's beard is on fire, and another man warms his hands on it.
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