વાઘને ધીરે, વીંછી ધીરે, ધીરે મણીધર કાળા;

vāghanē dhīrē, vīṁchī dhīrē, dhīrē maṇīdhara kāḷā;

Literally: Lend to a tiger, lend to a scorpion, lend to a black venomous snake;
What it means: Warns against lending money to untrustworthy people by claiming it is safer to trust dangerous beasts than certain treacherous lenders.

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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