ચાર દિવસનું ચાંદરણું ને રાત અંધારી ઘોર.

cāra divasanuṁ cāṁdaraṇuṁ nē rāta aṁdhārī ghōra.

Literally: Four days of moonlight and then a night of pitch darkness.
What it means: Good times are fleeting and often followed by hardship.
The English proverb Shah set beside it: New brooms sweep well.Alert in the beginning, negligent in the end.The finest shoe often hurts the foot.

Also said as

ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1923) ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1921) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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