This page contains a collection of 65 sayings of Indian origin. Enjoy!
- You can’t straighten dog’s tail by putting in a hose pipe.
- You can only lean against that which resists.
- You are making plans without acquiring the required resources.
- Without death, there can be no heaven.
- We do not value the things that we already possess.
- Watch the company you keep.
- Those who make the most threats seldom do anything.
- Those who have trouble following rules as young will get worse when they get older.
- Those who are in the company of the noble will reap the benefits by association.
- There is a great demand for something in short supply.
- The weakest go to the wall.
- The problem is one thing and the solution is given for something else.
- The grass is always greener on the other side.
- Tailor your speech to your audience.
- Someone who can’t understand can’t appreciate.
- Seeing the peacock, the rooster spread his wings.
- Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.
- One who knows how to talk will have no fights, one who knows how to eat will have no sickness.
- One finger can’t lift a pebble.
- Money is everything in the real world.
- Love is blind.
- Live within your means.
- Little drops of water make a mighty ocean.
- Large desire is endless poverty.
- It takes a long time to be prosperous, and when you are prospered you are not in a position to enjoy it.
- It is better to have something than nothing.
- It is always enjoyable to make fun of others tragedy till it actually hits you.
- If you are born, you are to die, you can’t be immortal.
- He is a rat at home, but when he comes to the street he becomes a tiger.
- Hard work pays off.
- Good things in life cannot be appreciated by someone who has never experienced the good things.
- Familiarity breeds contempt.
- Facts don’t require proof to stand correct.
- Empty vessels make more noise.
- Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water.
- Do not bring up small issues during major problems.
- Disagreements between people in love are forgotten easily.
- Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
- Brains are not to be found in the beard.
- Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults.
- Better lie than gossip.
- Better cross-eyed than blind.
- Best Chances will become Odds if you don’t react in time.
- Be like a camel — carrying sweets but dining on thorns.
- Be bad to the bad; good to the good; be a flower to other flowers and a thorn to other thorns.
- Barking Dog Seldom Bite.
- Bad workmen blame their tools.
- Approach to accomplish a work without depending upon someone else.
- An arch never sleeps.
- Always be well dressed, even when begging.
- A thief is a thief, whether he steals a diamond or a cucumber.
- A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch — both cannot be saved.
- A pearl is worthless as long as it is still in its shell.
- A man without money is like a bow without arrows.
- A man without a woman is only half a man.
- A man laughs at others and weeps for himself.
- A lie has no author, nor a liar a conscience.
- A foolish bride gets no presents.
- A fight in your neighbor’s house is refreshing.
- A dog always bites under the knee.
- A doctor is only a doctor when he has killed one or two patients.
- A coconut shell full of water is a sea to an ant.
- A cat in a cage becomes a lion.
- A buffalo does not feel the weight of his own horns.
- A beautiful woman belongs to everyone; an ugly one is yours alone.
