299 Indian Proverbs / Page 13
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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.242.
Those who hunt deer sometimes raise tigers.243.
Though the snake be small, it is still wise to hit it with a big stick.244.
To give jewels to a donkey is as stupid as giving a eunuch to a woman.245.
To lend is to buy a quarrel.246.
To loan is to buy troubles.247.
To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.248.
To sing to the deaf, to talk with the dumb, and to dance for the blind are three foolish things.249.
To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great.250.
To the world wisdom is folly; to the wise the world is foolish.251.
True happiness lies in giving it to others.252.
Truth has no branches.253.
Turkeys, parrots, and hares don't know what gratitude is.254.
Under the mountains is silver and gold, But under the night sky, hunger and cold.255.
Undeserved punishment is better than that which is deserved.256.
Use medicine as well as prayers.257.
Walking slowly, even the donkey will reach Lhasa.258.
War is to a man what bed is to a woman.259.
We admire what we do not understand.260.
We are both queens, so who will hang out the laundry?