Nepali Proverbs

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• नाच्न नजान्ने आँगन
  • One who doesn't know how to dance complains about the courtyard.
  • It means that people who are incompetent always make excuses and put the blame on one thing or another about why they can't do certains things.

• Kukkur ko pucchar 12 barsa dhungro maa chepda pani tyedai
  • Even if you keep a dog's tail in between two big stones for 12 years, it wont get straight.
  • Moral: There are few, who never change and never learn a thing even if they are continiously taught that they are wrong things.

• Ratbhari Ramayan padhayo, Sita kaski joyi"
  • When you have taught the Ramayan(A holy book of the Hindus) all night, a person asks who Ram's(The principle character)wife is.

• बनको बागले खावोस नखावोस मनको बागले खान्छ।
  • "one should not be oversensitive....cause...things might go okay till u kept on wondering it to happen wrong"
  • Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss.

• Ratbhari karayo dachhina harayo

• Chauta khana gayeki budi jhol ma dubera mari
  • Greed leads to disaster

• Futkeko machho thulo
  • The fish that slipped from your hand seemed bigger than what you caught.
  • Lost or missed opportunity always looks better than what you got.