You cannot cook one half of the chicken and leave the other lay eggs.
More Indian Proverbs:
It is love that makes the impossible possible.Indian
The pain is sometimes preferable to the treatment.
Indian
If you are up to your knees in pleasure, then you are up to your waist in grief.
Indian
What good is giving sugar to the dead?
Indian
As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all things are attached to life.
Indian
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
Indian