69 Sayings of Tamilan Origin

1. "It's enjoyment till the marriage and its misery from then." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

2. "Can you ask price for your ghee before buying buffalo?" (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

3. "He who loves the truth has many enemies." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

4. "When the sky opens up and rains, charity will be abundant." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

5. "The word uttered by the mouth in anger is too dangerous." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

6. "Retribution follows a person from his own wickedness." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

7. "He that speaks me fair and loves me not, I'll speak him fair and trust him not." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

8. "Before you build a house you have to dig a pit." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

9. "He that gets forgets; but he that wants, thinks on." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

10. "Even after boiling the milk hasn't spilt out of the vessel." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

11. "As people go their own way, destiny goes with them." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

12. "Desire never stops, it increases even after satisfaction." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

13. "The olden age was never the present age." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

14. "When I drown, the whole world drowns." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

15. "Popular agitation leads to justice." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

16. "He that praise publicly will slander privately." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

17. "Our shadow will follow us." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

18. "The cat that has got fire burns will never go near the kitchen." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

19. "A good tongue is a good weapon." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

20. "You can buy everything, except a father and a mother." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

21. "Adversity makes a man wise, not rich." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

22. "The comforter's head never aches." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

23. "He who hath done ill once will do it again." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

24. "One child for a young girl and one wash for a new cloth." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

25. "He swells not in prosperity, and shrinks not in adversity." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

26. "A wise man is he who knows that prosperity and adversity are alike." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

27. "The more one has, the more one wants." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

28. "To entrust the sheep to the wolf." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

29. "Neither does he expand in March nor does he get lean in April." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

30. "Sin is sin whether big or small." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

31. "The wolf cried when the sheep got drenched in rain." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

32. "The one who teaches is the giver of eyes." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

33. "Only the cure you believe in cures." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

34. "Don't count on the chicken before they hatch." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

35. "The dancer watched the east, the laborer watched the west." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

36. "Envy shoots at others and wounds herself." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

37. "Tell the defect to get more quantity." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

38. "The water is running in the river, father drink it, mother drink it." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

39. "Learn about the future by looking at the past." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

40. "A bad horse eats as much as a good one." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

41. "Abstinence is the best medicine." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

42. "Can you paint the outer wall neglecting the inner wall?" (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

43. "When the mother dies the father becomes an uncle." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

44. "IF you are buying a cow, make sure that the price of the tail is included." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

45. "One never loses by doing a good turn." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

46. "Why would a man without a bow look for arrows?" (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

47. "Weapon which is not polished gets rusted." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

48. "Birds are entangled by their feet, and men by their tongues." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

49. "All women are good, good for something or good for nothing." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

50. "During the harvest time a rat keeps five wives." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

51. "After every child your desire for children increases, after every penny saved your desire for money increases." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

52. "A honey tongue, a heart of gall." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

53. "Beware of the geese when the fox preaches." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

54. "The treasure of a house is a cow and treasure of a garden is Murungai tree." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

55. "Malice drinketh its own poison." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

56. "Kind words conquer." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

57. "When a man, who never attended a festival, attends one, even the festival day becomes a common day." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

58. "Crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

59. "Even an elephant can slip." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

60. "Even a broken pot might contain sugar." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

61. "When the tongue moves, the country moves." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

62. "The beggar who asks for crumbs gets more than the one who asks for bread." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

63. "While they are in the valley he treats her as his wife, while on the hill he treats her as his sister." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

64. "Even the devil needs a friend." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

65. "Our faults provide opportunities for others." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

66. "You cannot justify a crime by saying its very small crime." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

67. "Are there any words which can go against God's words?" (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

68. "Use the small fish as bait to catch the bigger fish." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet

 

69. "If you have planted a tree you must water it too." (Tamilan Sayings) Click to tweet