Indian proverbs

Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.
Anger ends in cruelty.
Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults.
Blow the wind ne'er so fast, it will lower at last.
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
Don't just cross a river--cross it bearing fire!
. Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny.
Garlic is as good as ten mothers.

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
Large desire is endless poverty.
Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work.
Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.
Separation secures manifest friendship.
September blow soft till the fruit's in the loft.
Sit on the bank of a river and wait: Your enemy's corpse will soon float by.
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
The weakest go to the wall.
To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great.
You can never enter the same river twice.
You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.
You can only lean against that which resists.
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Atithi devo bhava' an age-old Indian proverb literally places the guest at par with the Gods and people in India follow this adage even today. The best of everything is offered to a guest.
The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.
You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
You can only lean against that which resists. A smile you sent, will always return.
Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings.
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
A guilty conscience is a hidden enemy.
Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work.
Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.
Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults.
To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.
If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.
Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his shoes.
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
An arch never sleeps.

Pray one hour before going to war, Two hours before going to sea, And three hours before getting married. The sieve says to the needle; you have a hole in your head. The tree casts its shade upon all, even the woodcutter. There is no evil without its advantages. Those who hunt deer sometimes raise tigers. To lend is to buy a quarrel. Under the mountains is silver and gold, But under the night sky, hunger and cold. When you are in the water you swim. If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity. When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
Nonviolence is the supreme law of life. The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.