Famous Proverbs
425 Proverbs about India / Page 34
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There is a great uproar made about the debt of a poor man.332.
There is enmity between to dig and to let dig.333.
There is no hand to catch time.334.
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.335.
These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.336.
Though the snake be small, it is still wise to hit it with a big stick.337.
To give jewels to a donkey is as stupid as giving a eunuch to a woman.338.
To loan is to buy troubles.339.
To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.340.
To sing to the deaf, to talk with the dumb, and to dance for the blind are three foolish things.