299 Indian Proverbs / Page 29
- 281. Who is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot.
 - 282. Whoever eats a pancake never counts the holes in it.
- 283. Why save when your son is a good son? Why save when your son is a bad son?
- 284. Without love everything is in vain.
- 285. Without men in the neighborhood all the women are chaste.
- 286. Worldly prosperity is like writing on water.
- 287. Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
- 288. You can never enter the same river twice.
- 289. You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.
- 290. You can only lean against that which resists.
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