બધી કહેવતોAll of them, by first letter.

અભિમાન રાજા રાવણનુંય રહ્યું નથી.

abhimāna rājā rāvaṇanuṁya rahyuṁ nathī.

However mighty you are, arrogance does not last.

અધૂરો ઘડો છલકાય

adhūrō ghaḍō chalakāya

The person who knows least makes the most noise about it.

અધુરો ઘડો છલકાય ઘણો.

adhurō ghaḍō chalakāya ghaṇō.

The person who knows least makes the most noise about it.

અજાણ્યા પાણીમાં ઊતરવું નહિ

ajāṇyā pāṇīmāṁ ūtaravuṁ nahi

Do not venture into a situation whose depth you cannot judge.

અજાણ્યો અને આંધળો બેઉ સરખા

ajāṇyō anē āṁdhaḷō bēu sarakhā

Not knowing leaves you as helpless as not seeing.

અક્કલ ઉધાર ન મળે

akkala udhāra na maḷē

You cannot get wisdom from someone else — you either have your own or you don't.

અક્કલનો ઓથમીર મંગાવી ભાજી તો લાવ્યો કોથમીર

akkalanō ōthamīra maṁgāvī bhājī tō lāvyō kōthamīra

Said of someone who misunderstands a simple instruction and returns with the wrong thing.

અક્કરમીનો પડિયો કાણો

akkaramīnō paḍiyō kāṇō

For the unlucky, even the tools that come to hand turn out to be broken.

અનાજ પારકું છે પણ પેટ થોડું પારકું છે ?

anāja pārakuṁ chē paṇa pēṭa thōḍuṁ pārakuṁ chē ?

Said with a shrug when eating at another's expense: whoever paid, the hunger is mine.

અંધારામાં પણ ગોળ તો ગળ્યો જ લાગે

aṁdhārāmāṁ paṇa gōḷa tō gaḷyō ja lāgē

Real quality shows itself whether or not anyone can see it.

અંધારામાં તીર ચલાવવું

aṁdhārāmāṁ tīra calāvavuṁ

To act or guess blindly, with no idea whether it will land.

અંધેરી નગરી ગંડુ રાજા

aṁdhērī nagarī gaṁḍu rājā

A place where nothing is governed properly and misrule goes unchallenged.

અંગૂઠો બતાવવો

aṁgūṭhō batāvavō

A flat, contemptuous refusal — denying someone the thing they came expecting.

અણીનો ચૂક્યો સો વરસ જીવે

aṇīnō cūkyō sō varasa jīvē

A narrow escape is taken as a sign of a long life ahead.

અંજળ પાણી ખૂટવા

aṁjaḷa pāṇī khūṭavā

Said when a person's ordained time in a place is over — they must leave, or they have died.

અન્ન અને દાંતને વેર

anna anē dāṁtanē vēra

Said when someone cannot eat — either the food will not come, or the appetite will not.

અન્ન એવો ઓડકાર.

anna ēvō ōḍakāra.

What comes out of a person reflects what went in — upbringing, company, or diet.

અન્ન તેનું પૂણ્ય અને રાંધનારીને ધૂમાડો.

anna tēnuṁ pūṇya anē rāṁdhanārīnē dhūmāḍō.

The one who does the actual labour gets none of the credit.

અન્ન તેવો ઓડકાર

anna tēvō ōḍakāra

What comes out of a person reflects what went in — upbringing, company, or diet.

અંતે ધર્મો જય, પાપો ક્ષય.

aṁtē dharmō jaya, pāpō kṣaya.

Whatever happens along the way, right prevails eventually.

અપના હાથ જગન્નાથ.

apanā hātha jagannātha.

Your own two hands are the god worth relying on — do it yourself.

અતિ ચીકણો બહુ ખરડાય

ati cīkaṇō bahu kharaḍāya

The person who is too slippery or too clever ends up the most soiled by it.

અતિ લોભ તે પાપનું મૂળ

ati lōbha tē pāpanuṁ mūḷa

Wanting too much is where wrongdoing starts.

અતિની ગતિ નહીં.

atinī gati nahīṁ.

Nothing taken to an extreme lasts or ends well.

અત્તરનાં છાંટણા જ હોય, અત્તરના કુંડાં ન ભરાય

attaranāṁ chāṁṭaṇā ja hōya, attaranā kuṁḍāṁ na bharāya

What is genuinely precious comes in small measures.

અવળા હાથની અડબોથ

avaḷā hāthanī aḍabōtha

A rebuke or blow delivered sideways rather than face-on.

અવળે અસ્ત્રે મુંડી નાખવો

avaḷē astrē muṁḍī nākhavō

To fleece a person thoroughly while appearing to do them a service.

અવસર ચૂક્યો મેહુલો શું કામનો ?

avasara cūkyō mēhulō śuṁ kāmanō ?

Help that arrives after the need has passed is worth nothing.

અચ્છોવાના કરવાં

acchōvānā karavāṁ