110 Asian-Indian Proverbs / Page 4
61. Our shadow will follow us.
62. Popular agitation leads to justice.
63. Saints fly only in the eyes of their disciples.
64. Saving mustard seeds in hand, while a watermelon escapes.
65. Service is greatness.
66. Sleep after selling horses and elephants.
67. Snakes turn milk into poison.
68. 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.
69. Take a close look at today, because yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is barely a vision.
70. Take a close look then at today.
71. The beggar is not afraid of the drawbacks of being rich.
72. The beggar who asks for crumbs gets more than the one who asks for bread.
73. The customers are known to the shopkeepers.
74. The danger past, and God forgotten.
75. The diamond in your belly sparkles on your face.
76. The fall is nobody's sire.
77. The gardener had not yet dug out the radish, when the beggar held the alms-bowl in front of him.
78. The gardner had not yet dug out the radish, when the beggar held the alms-bowl in front of him.
79. The greatest hero is one who has control over his desires.
80. The one who teaches is the giver of eyes.