ઊજ્જડ ગામની જમે શી ભરવી?

ūjjaḍa gāmanī jamē śī bharavī?

Literally: What tax revenue is to be collected from a deserted village?
What it means: Nothing can be extracted from a person or place that has lost all wealth and resources.

Also said as

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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