એવું બોળું કાણુ હોય કે ઘેસમાં ઘી નાખે.

ēvuṁ bōḷuṁ kāṇu hōya kē ghēsamāṁ ghī nākhē.

Literally: Who is so foolish as to pour clarified butter into coarse porridge?
What it means: Wasteful expenditure on worthless things is pure stupidity.

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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