299 Indian Proverbs / Page 15
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Who is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot.282.
Whoever eats a pancake never counts the holes in it.283.
Why save when your son is a good son? Why save when your son is a bad son?284.
Without love everything is in vain.285.
Without men in the neighborhood all the women are chaste.286.
Worldly prosperity is like writing on water.287.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.288.
You can never enter the same river twice.289.
You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.290.
You can only lean against that which resists.291.
You cannot separate water by beating it with a fork.292.
You do not stumble over a mountain, but you do over a stone.293.
You have to believe in gods to see them.294.
You may lock up the cock, but the sun will still rise.295.
You may look up for inspiration or look down in desperation but do not look sideways for information.296.
You may never die before death arrives.297.
You must answer the devil in his own language.298.
You should not call in a cat to settle the argument of two birds.299.
Your own wealth is flowers and wine; the other man's is but weeds.