One.
The dead have no
God, so they find
forgiveness easily.
The living have at least
one God, so they don’t find
forgiveness easily.
Two.
Married women
have priority,
widows have no
rights……this too is called society!
Three.
I am yours,
only yours!
Set aside the wine in your cup
and drink me instead.
Four.
If you beat it
while milking,
no cow
gives milk.
Five.
I’m yours too,
she’s yours too!
Now let’s see
who does the cooking!
Six.
Fair to look at,
dark at heart.
Dark to look at,
good at heart.
Seven.
The chicken born
only to be roasted—
its God is deaf
or dead.
Eight.
Skip your prayers,
stay unlucky.
Nine.
What doesn’t sell
by day’s end is either too expensive
or worthless.
Ten.
Morning in the prayer room,
by evening,
at the drinking den.
Eleven.
Sit quietly,
God is
resting.
Twelve.
He embraces you,
then plants a knife
in your back.
Thirteen.
Rationed sugar
on a rich man’s tongue
is sweeter than honey
on a poor man’s lips.
Fourteen.
Come, to make the equation work, let’s assume
God will judge
this.
Fifteen.
There was a country
where the lame
walked on two feet.
Sixteen.
He can bear it,
so he does.
Why should you or I
object? When have we ever asked
how he survives?
Seventeen.
Sit there with a wooden cat
and of course the mice will be afraid!
Eighteen.
When you transform yourself, you must readily accept both old pain and new pain.
Nineteen.
I want back those school days when skipping studies made me think: if I don’t study, it’s my parents who lose out!
Twenty.
Before going to the new office, at least shave that beard,
before entering the new room, at least wash your face.
Twenty-one.
When attacking a sick lion, the jackals’ sense of brotherhood simply overflows! (Like watching mosquitoes unite when kicking an elephant stuck in mud!)
Twenty-two.
To understand life, go spend some time in a house where there isn’t even flour to make bread.
Twenty-three.
Don’t hurt even the devil’s feelings—in times of trouble, even the devil’s wisdom might come in handy. Often, it takes the devil’s own cunning to defeat the devil.
Twenty-four.
God is great, but His greatness follows certain grammar. If you don’t follow the grammar, don’t expect His mercy.
Twenty-five.
A sleeping person is always a good person.
Twenty-six.
If invited, come to eat.
If chased away, run.
The one who invites you today will chase you away tomorrow. Accept this if you don’t want to get hurt.
Twenty-seven.
Beware of the person whose brain is in his wallet, not his head.
Twenty-eight.
Even the weakest, most exhausted hand knows how to steal when necessary.
Twenty-nine.
Being alive is joyful when I’m asleep.
Thirty.
Never forget these two faces: how you were when there was no food in your house, and how your friend was then.
Thirty-one.
Buy cheap toothpicks and the money you save goes into the dentist’s pocket.
Thirty-two.
Be humane—don’t enter a weak horse in the races. Life returns everything with interest.
Thirty-three.
Wet the brush first—your teeth will hurt less.
Thirty-four.
After growing up well-fed and clothed on a thief’s money, the thief’s virtuous son proposed hanging his father for theft.
Thirty-five.
People you can trust always live in someone else’s house.
Thirty-six.
Honorable Authority,
I know the history
of what you were before
you became an authority.
Thirty-seven.
Some lowly, hypocritical, fickle people joined forces
‘for the good of the world’ and broke my spine.
Thirty-eight.
The past never returns,
the past only devours
the present.
Thirty-nine.
Not everyone who praises
fools is themselves
a fool.
Forty.
You cannot become rich
without knowing how to sell your conscience.
Forty-one.
Women think of themselves
as Goddess Durga, whose creation and
power both came about for the
benefit of men!
Forty-two.
If there were no need for sexuality
in this world, very few women would hear such unreserved praise from men’s lips,
and whether most men would give women
any time at all is doubtful.
Forty-three.
From cradle to grave,
masters see servants only through a servant’s eyes. Even when sitting together
at the dining table with a servant, the master still thinks: I am eating with
my servant (not with someone who is like a friend). There is no magnanimity here—for him, this is a kind of self-satisfaction.
Forty-four.
It’s the wayward boy who
threatens his mother: if you don’t give me
that thing, I’ll really go astray!
Forty-five.
When tears dry up
from crying, people jump into the river
to facilitate more weeping.
Forty-six.
The God of the poor
and the God of the rich are two different Gods. Even their styles of prayer are different.
Forty-seven.
By God’s will
we are well, by God’s will
they are not well.
Forty-eight.
Small-hearted people
always speak big words.
Forty-nine.
He who has never tasted
water in his life
never feels thirsty.
Fifty.
Since you are alive,
you must take some share of the guilt or responsibility
for crimes! You didn’t commit any crime? I understand, but that’s
your problem, not the world’s.
Fifty-one.
Those with weak arms
carry more weight in their heads.
Those with weak heads carry more weight
in their arms.
Fifty-two.
You don’t need a bar
to drink, so when you go to a bar, take someone with you. Walk
the righteous path alone, keep
companions on the crooked path.
Fifty-three.
When being raped
becomes one’s necessity, there is no one
more helpless.
Fifty-four.
When the devil makes a foolish mistake like an idiot, everyone else falls into confusion over that mistake.
Fifty-five.
What’s the point of increasing sorrow by thinking about another man’s wife?
What’s the point of increasing happiness by not thinking about one’s own wife?
Fifty-six.
At this age, grandmother can still find the eye of a needle, but she cannot find her spectacles.
Fifty-seven.
After one of them pressed a revolver to my head and shot me dead, the others came and kicked the corpse repeatedly to “fulfill their duty of ensuring my death.”
Fifty-eight.
When I’m thirsty, the friend who even helps me find water is not merely a friend—he is my brother;
When I’m thirsty, the brother who doesn’t give me water isn’t even a friend, let alone being a brother!
Fifty-nine.
Those who are saints by day and thieves by night are less dangerous than those who are thieves by day and saints by night.
Sixty.
One whose pen works doesn’t have to survive by manual labor.
One whose hands work cannot survive by the pen even if he wants to.
Sixty-one.
Enforcing laws is more important than making them,
but what’s even more important is ensuring that enforcement applies equally to the enforcers themselves.
Sixty-two.
As long as you have a head full of hair,
don’t make a fuss about the high cost of baldness treatments.
Sixty-three.
When you approach… “Very good, sir!”
When you leave… “That bastard, what an ass!”
Sixty-four.
If you want to stay well, learn to drink milk yourself, teach others to drink liquor.
Sixty-five.
You measure sorrow by tears, which is why you never discover the grief of those who suffer most.
Sixty-six.
After graduating, he began becoming stupid as the times demanded.
Sixty-seven.
Don’t ask for advice on building bridges from someone whose life’s bridge has collapsed.
Sixty-eight.
We work ourselves to the bone, earning and saving for certain people who have simply assumed this is their due and our duty—therefore, there’s nothing to be grateful for.
Sixty-nine.
Sometimes
to cure a headache you must cut off the head, when the body feels better without it.
Seventy.
By God’s grace he has
received both shamelessness and wealth,
and is living
a happy life.
Seventy-one.
Even a godless
murderer’s final excuse: God made me do it.
Seventy-two.
Since gold is precious
I made you gold jewelry, it never occurred to me that you wanted silver.
Seventy-three.
In the land of the blind
the desire to see is the greatest sin.
Seventy-four.
Look, in our haste we had a child, don’t mind it, come, now let’s fall in love and get married!
Seventy-five.
A crow will still shit
even in heaven, keep this in mind
when adding crows to your friend list.
Seventy-six.
Here we serve
delicious human flesh: come, eat, be prepared.
Seventy-seven.
If you want to make something heavy
make your pockets heavy, you can’t make
your grave heavy!
Seventy-eight.
As companions
dogs are better than humans, but we still
have to live with humans so we can call some people ‘dogs’ as an insult.
Seventy-nine.
Some crimes
should be punished by death, otherwise the criminal
commits the crime again with complete faith in God’s forgiveness, just like before.
Eighty.
Two friends
fought fiercely over a girl, then watched
the girl walk away holding someone else’s hand.
Eighty-one.
Some pay the price
for success, some take
credit for it.
Eighty-two.
Those for whom you gave
your life, they came to your funeral feast
and left saying the mutton needed more salt.
Eighty-three.
To buy you glasses
he lost both his own eyes. Check if the size is right.
Eighty-four.
You all sit quietly,
let peace come here;
but don’t tell me
to be quiet.
Eighty-five.
From the pressure of studying
my hair turned gray, but I learned
nothing.
Eighty-six.
Good fortune doesn’t
fall from the sky while you sleep.
Eighty-seven.
Since birth
I’ve watched this guava tree
bear mangoes, so please don’t call this tree
a jackfruit anymore.
Eighty-nine.
Living in your village,
don’t talk about what our village has or lacks; come here instead, you’ll understand everything.
Ninety.
Come then,
if there’s nothing else
to do, let’s just make war.
Ninety-one.
Your boss
at the company where you work—his mother once
worked as a maid in your house. Why does this thought
bring you such joy?
Ninety-two.
When there’s nothing
inside, the jumping gets louder. You’ll find plenty of people
to applaud your antics—they’re from your own tribe anyway!
Ninety-three.
By God’s will, the devil
stands beside me—what do I have to fear now?
Ninety-four.
A two-penny worker’s
salary is two pennies.
Ninety-five.
Despite much effort,
he never learned to read, so in anger and sorrow he ended up writing many poems.
Ninety-six.
Those with little money
rarely receive visits from Lakshmi,
the goddess of wealth. People don’t get rich from Lakshmi’s grace—rather, when they get rich, they seek
her blessing more and more.
Ninety-seven.
To put it briefly,
this much I’ll say: if you want to stay well, keep quiet. Suppose
you really need to use the bathroom,
but there’s no toilet
anywhere around.
Hold it in—many before you
have held it, and many will in the future.
Clench and live!
Ninety-eight.
Even after Destiny
Company’s collapse, I’ve seen plenty of shameless people
still talking themselves into wealth.
Ninety-nine.
I had five
apples, he had seven;
by befriending him
I became the owner of six apples.
One hundred.
Come, let’s move forward looking ahead
instead of at each other. If we can’t be this selfish, we might as well go live in a monastery.
One hundred and one.
He invited me to dinner
at his house, then began explaining
the benefits of eating less.
One hundred and two.
You want
the dark circles under my eyes to disappear,
yet you’re the same one who won’t let me
rest.
One hundred and three.
Some get caught
stealing, others get caught
not stealing. Getting caught is a greater crime than stealing itself.
One hundred and four.
If you apologize for a mistake, sometimes forgiveness comes. But if you apologize under pressure for no wrongdoing, you get nothing but additional torment.
One hundred four.
When you force someone greater than yourself to bow their head before you, your own position actually sinks lower.
One hundred five.
To the needy, even one taka is worth a hundred paisa!
One hundred six.
Bullets kiss the powerful gently and fail to pierce.
One hundred seven.
You need some devoted listeners; some people need money, which you have. Therefore, you are a good speaker. I’ve seen many incompetent souls become eloquent orators through position, power, and wealth.
One hundred eight.
Those who hate you—if they called upon God as many times a day as they utter your name, they would have achieved divine vision long ago!
One hundred nine.
Hold on, brother! Cows don’t defecate to benefit the environment.
One hundred ten.
Even if all the poor became wealthy, the country’s condition wouldn’t change. Without transformation in mentality and perspective, our per capita income might rise, infrastructure might develop, we might advance in health and medicine—but we’ll remain just as crude, hypocritical, and mob-minded.
One hundred eleven.
Anyone who has advanced beyond others should be killed—for the balanced development of the masses! In a kingdom of donkeys, lions naturally cannot survive.
One hundred twelve.
Endure the present—you’ve already endured the past to reach here!
One hundred thirteen.
Ghosts themselves don’t realize that no one respects them—people just fear them.
One hundred fourteen.
Learn the wrong path too, so you can either avoid it or use it when necessity demands.
One hundred fifteen.
God exists for the helpless—at least the helpless believe this and manage to live.
One hundred sixteen.
Two days of leaping, two centuries of sleep.
One hundred seventeen.
Believe it or not, no extra sunlight falls on the class topper’s books.
One hundred eighteen.
Don’t praise your own flesh to a cannibal.
One hundred nineteen.
My wife cooks chicken well because my mother knew how to cook lentils well.
One hundred twenty.
Tigers eat human flesh and tell no one about it, but if humans could eat tiger meat, they’d surely announce it to the whole world.
One hundred twenty-one.
The matchstick takes only one kiss, poor thing—only the stick itself knows what it feels like to burn!
One hundred twenty-two.
Those who take revenge without thought must bear the consequences.
One hundred twenty-three.
The poor dine by candlelight, the rich have candlelight dinners.
One hundred twenty-four.
Even those whose homes overflow with wasted food stand in line to receive blessed offerings. This isn’t called hunger—it’s called faith.
One hundred twenty-five.
Humans are fundamentally cruel. In the right environment, in groups, their true faces emerge.
One hundred twenty-six.
To touch a woman in the dark, you don’t need to be a man—being a coward is enough.
One hundred twenty-seven.
Sometimes you must stand against your own family, or else spend your whole life weeping with regret. Families make certain decisions demanded by the times, not by your heart’s desire. If you quietly accept them, you’ll spend your entire life in remorse—only you, no one else.
One hundred twenty-eight.
On Facebook, almost everyone’s main message is the same: Look, I am better and more beautiful than you and everyone else we both know. Therefore, you must accept my goodness and beauty unconditionally.
One hundred twenty-nine.
We demand justice for crimes that weren’t committed by someone we favor.
One hundred thirty.
Not everyone lives comfortably through their own merit—many live comfortably through sheer good fortune.
One hundred thirty-one.
The first principle of a culture without justice is this: God will judge this.