Great Throughts Treasury

"Father's bear. I left him but he did not let me free."

"First for self, then for the stranger."

"First, one is deformed, and second, proud too."

"For every sin but the killing of Time there is forgiveness."

"For walking it is important to have something to eat."

"Free things, good or bad, are accepted by all."

"Freedom is the absence of choice."

"From a distance even black pepper becomes sweets, near at hand sugar becomes bitter."

"Get a mound Expend abound Sustentation is chastely unsound. A proverb in a metrical form deserves a metrical interpretation."

"Giving advice to a stupid person is like feeding salt to monkeys."

"God has given the scab, and the barber causes a wound (in it)."

"God takes care of our handicaps."

"God takes care of the people who need it."

"God waters the pines of the jungle."

"Good advice is lost on stupid persons."

"Good connections pay."

"Good people are gentle."

"Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others. - Muhammad"

"He who speaks the truth, his eye is gouged out."

"He who tastes, knows."

"Health is wealth."

"How does it matter if reality is ignored?"

"How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child! " They even interpret their dumb language." Alternatively, it could be said that people enduring woes of similar nature understand each other better."

"I brought the nettle, sowed the nettle, and then the nettle stung me."

"I have a printed cloth, which no one else has."

"I searched for myself and found only God"."

"I think, therefore I am."

"I will offer you the blood but of the butcher's shop."

"I will usurp his kharwar and will not pay him a penny."

"If I repent now will God forgive me? No, but if God forgives you, you will repent."

"If it comes, it is golden; if it doesn't, it was made of grass."

"If it is not a gossip, why to say it in someone's ear (or whisper)?"

"If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to do it unless there had been some good in it. - Muhammed"

"If one cannot face a situation, one should give it up."

"If one is healthy, the world is healthy."

"If one is not mother's brother, how can he be the daughter's (maternal) uncle?"

"If someone remarks: "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man. - Sufyan al Thawri"

"If wishes were horses beggars would ride."

"If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart, but if they come from the tongue, they will not pass beyond the ears. - Al-Suhrawardi"

"If you couldn't win, why didn't you run away?"

"If you don't have an enemy, don't you have a cousin?"

"If you weep, your troubles heap."

"Ignorance is bliss."

"Impossible tasks are accomplished by good luck."

"In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones."

"In unity there is strength. Two heads are better than one."

"Initially hesitant but eventually over compliant! This proverb is applicable to persons who exhibit hesitancy in their responses initially, but due to certain influences, this hesitancy turns into over submissiveness in the long run."

"Is a calf ever lost in a milk vendors' house?"

"It could be genuine for horses to complaint, but (instead of horses) complaints are made by the load sacks (or saddle bags)."

"It does not pay to talk a lot."