દાતરડાં ગળવાં સહેલ છે, પણ કાહાડવાં મુશ્કેલ છે.

dātaraḍāṁ gaḷavāṁ sahēla chē, paṇa kāhāḍavāṁ muśkēla chē.

Literally: It is easy to forge sickles, but difficult to extract them.
What it means: Getting into a situation is easy, but getting out of it is hard.

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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