299 Indian Proverbs / Page 9
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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.162.
Not all the buds on a bush will blossom.163.
Nothing is comprehensible except by virtue of its edges.164.
One and one sometimes make eleven.165.
One finger can't lift a pebble.166.
One man's beard is burning, and another warms his hands by it.167.
One man's house burns so that another may warm himself.168.
One of the two partners always bites the best part of the apple.169.
One person can burn water, while another can't even burn oil.170.
Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.171.
Only the hunchback himself knows how he can lie comfortably.172.
Only the nightingale understands the rose.173.
Only two things matter in this world: a son and a daughter.174.
Patience is the most beautiful prayer.175.
Pearls are of no value in a desert.176.
Pearls are worthless in the desert.177.
Poverty destroys all virtues.178.
Poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets.179.
Pull someone by the ears and his head will follow.180.
Rather be a slave to a rich man than the spouse of a poor man.