Indian Proverbs, Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
23 Indian Proverbs
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“Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on
a fixed wage.”
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“Anger ends in cruelty.”
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“Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of
your faults.”
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“Blaw the wind ne'er so fast, it will lower at last.”
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“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”
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“Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.”
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“Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his
moccasins.”
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“Don't just cross a river--cross it bearing fire!.”
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“Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny.”
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“Garlic is as good as ten mothers.”
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“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.”
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“Large desire is endless poverty.”
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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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“Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.”
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“Separation secures manifest friendship.”
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“September blow soft till the fruit's in the loft.”
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“Sit on the bank of a river and wait: Your enemy's corpse will
soon float by.”
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“The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil
man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with
truth.”
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“The weakest go to the wall.”
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“To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great.”
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“You can never enter the same river twice.”
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“You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.”
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“You can only lean against that which resists.”
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