Quotes by Tamil Authors

A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth
Thiruvalluvar
Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.
Thiruvalluvar
He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven
Thiruvalluvar
Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.
Thiruvalluvar
There is a limit for everything. You can't just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart considering it's light weight. If you do, it will damage the axle of the cart.
Thiruvalluvar
Folded hands may conceal a dagger --Likewise a foe's tears.
Thiruvalluvar
In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.
Thiruvalluvar
Think wisely before you exercise an action. Having done so however, never look back and regret. That would be a shame
Thiruvalluvar
The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.
Thiruvalluvar
I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.
Thiruvalluvar
Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.
Thiruvalluvar
Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.
Thiruvalluvar
Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.
Thiruvalluvar
The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance.
Thiruvalluvar
The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.
Thiruvalluvar
Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.
Thiruvalluvar
She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state
Thiruvalluvar
Cling to the One who clings to nothing;And so clinging, cease to cling.
Thiruvalluvar
To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
Thiruvalluvar
If the married life possess love and virtue, these will be both its duty and reward
Thiruvalluvar
Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.
Thiruvalluvar
Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you
Thiruvalluvar
It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.
Thiruvalluvar
It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.
Thiruvalluvar
Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen.
Thiruvalluvar
From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.
Thiruvalluvar
When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.
Thiruvalluvar
Just as the hand rushes involuntarily to protect one's honor in case of accidental state of undress, so does a friend come to his friend's aid without being asked
Thiruvalluvar
Consider a man’s good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is more.
Thiruvalluvar
Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence of the blameless.
Thiruvalluvar
Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence.
Thiruvalluvar
Virtue alone is happiness; all elseIs else, and without praise.
Thiruvalluvar
Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits while there are a lot of ripe ones.
Thiruvalluvar
Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,Gathers and melts.
Thiruvalluvar