Browse Dozens of Proverbs
INDIAN
- "A good bark year makes a good wheat year."
- "A guilty conscience is a hidden enemy."
- "Be first at the feast, and last at the fight."
- "Call on God, but row away from the rocks."
- "Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings."
- "Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins."
- "I have lanced many boils, but none pained like my own."
- "If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster."
- "Nothing is comprehensible except by virtue of its edges."
- "One "no" averts seventy evils."
- "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."
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