110 Asian-Indian Proverbs / Page 2
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Dig a well every day to drink water every day.22.
Dig your well before you're thirsty.23.
Eating while seated makes one of large size; eating while standing makes one strong.24.
Eleven persons take eleven paths.25.
Empty vessels make much noise.26.
Even an elephant can slip.27.
Even the devil needs a friend.28.
Fear is the fever of life.29.
Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.30.
Great anger is more destructive than the sword.31.
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.32.
He who loves the truth has many enemies.33.
Help thy brother's boat across, and lo! thine own has reached the shore.34.
I bought the nettle, sowed the nettle, and then the nettle stung me.35.
If a man's heart be impure, all things will appear hostile to him.36.
IF you are buying a cow, make sure that the price of the tail is included.37.
If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.38.
If you gently touch a nettle it'll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a lad of mettle, an' as soft as silk remains.39.
If you have planted a tree you must water it too.40.
Ignorance is the peace of life.