Thiruvalluvar Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Compassion #Flesh #Shows

“To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Hands #Use #Fruit

“It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues, Which moves the world.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Moving #Compassion #World

“The only gift is giving to the poor; All else is exchange.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Giving #Poor

“It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Memories #Learning #Leaving Me

“This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Kindness #World #Poor

“They who in trouble untroubled are Will trouble trouble itself.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Adversity #Endurance #Calm

“There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Loss #Forget #Wealth

“There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Society #Faces #May

“Better the arrow that missed the lion than the one that killed a rabbit.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Arrows #Lions #Rabbits

“The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Ignorance #Ignorant #Torment

“The worth of a wife is a man's good fortune;His jewels are his good children.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Children #Men #Jewels

“The gruel that children's little hands have stirredIs sweeter than nectar.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Children #Hands #Littles

“The wound that's made by fire will heal,But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Fire #Tongue #Made

“To turn away a guest is poorest poverty;To bear with fools is mightiest might.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Might #Poverty #Fool

“When no food is given to the ear,Then let a little be given to the stomach.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Ears #Littles #Given

“As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Men #Water #Quality

“Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Hypocrisy #Ignorant

“The biggest fool is he who has learned much, taught much, and is still discontented.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Taught #Fool #Stills

“Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Friendship #Wise #Book

“Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Wise #Impossible #Careful

“Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Jealous #Mistress #Rivals

“Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion. For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Inspirational #Motivational #Mean

“Real kindness seeks no return.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Kindness #Real #Return

“Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Crowds #Wealth #Concerts

“When the rare chance comes, seize it To do the rare deed.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Deeds #Chance

“Those are fools however learned Who have not learned to walk with the world.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Fool #World #Walks

“Conquer with forbearance The excesses of insolence.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Excess #Conquer #Insolence

“Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Wise #Dull #Fool

“A fortress is of no use to cowards.”
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Coward #Use #Cowardice