બેઠક Bethak

હસતો હાળો ને રાતી રાંડ તેનું ઘર ન મંડાય.

hasatō hāḷō nē rātī rāṁḍa tēnuṁ ghara na maṁḍāya.

Literally
A laughing brother-in-law and a weeping widow—their household cannot be established.
What it means
Alliances with untrustworthy, frivolous, or perpetually miserable people are doomed to fail.

Also said as

  • હસ્યાં તેનાં વસ્યાં, ને રેશ્યાં તેનાં એયાં.
ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1923) · 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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