Bengali Proverbs

Bengali proverbs distill life in the Ganges–Brahmaputra delta and a long literary heritage. They prize wit, compassion, and practical sense, echoing monsoons, river journeys, and the reformist spirit of the 19th century.

Sleep is half of health.

Bengali Proverb

Pity without help does little good.

Bengali Proverb

A handful of love is better than an oven full of bread.

Bengali Proverb

As the master is away the workers take rest.

Bengali Proverb

To be poor is not a sin, it's better to avoid it anyway.

Bengali Proverb

Good remains are nice to have.

Bengali Proverb

Unless a man is simple, he cannot recognize God, the simple one.

Bengali Proverb

It is good for somebody as well as bad for someone else.

Bengali Proverb

It is more becoming to have a large nose than two small ones.

Bengali Proverb

My son, too old is the earth don't make fun of it.

Bengali Proverb

Once you are tired, you still can go far.

Bengali Proverb

Patient without any pain, the dog is lame when it wants to.

Bengali Proverb

Putting importance to an irrelevant and unnecessary occasion.

Bengali Proverb

Someone else's pain is easy to carry.

Bengali Proverb

Sorrow, nobody dies about it.

Bengali Proverb

The dog does not catch further that its leash.

Bengali Proverb

The drunk ones will sober up, but the mad ones will not clever up.

Bengali Proverb

The more cowherds there are, the worse the cows are looked after.

Bengali Proverb

The one who does not risk anything does not gain nor lose.

Bengali Proverb

There is no household without domestic fight.

Bengali Proverb

There is no man nor thing without his defect, and often they have two or three of them.

Bengali Proverb

There is no winter for who has remained in his mother's womb.

Bengali Proverb