299 Indian Proverbs / Page 10
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Regularity is the best medicine.182.
Separation secures manifest friendship.183.
September blow soft till the fruit's in the loft.184.
Since love departs at dawn, create, O God, a night that has no morn.185.
Sit on the bank of a river and wait: Your enemy's corpse will soon float by.186.
Smiles that you broadcast, will always come back to you.187.
Something done at the wrong time should be regarded as not done.188.
Speak like a parrot; meditate like a swan; chew like a goat; and bathe like an elephant.189.
Stolen sugar is the sweetest.190.
That which blossoms must also decay.191.
The ambitious one makes friends with the elephant, then tramples upon the ant.192.
The answerer is inferior to the asker.193.
The baby has not been born yet, and yet you assert that his nose is like his grandfather's.194.
The baby is not yet born, and yet you say that his nose is like his grandfather's.195.
The cobra will bite you whether you call it cobra or Mr. Cobra.196.
The cock goes to town for only four days and returns home a peacock.197.
The crab instructs its young: "Walk straight ahead -- like me."198.
The crow was killed by the storm -- "He died by my curse," says the owl.199.
The deceitful have no friends.200.
The dog's tail stays crooked even if he is buried for twelve years.