A frog dwelling in a pool scorns the ocean; he has not seen it and knows it not; he goes on croaking and boasting. A crow is puffed up and cries “I am more glorious than a king-goose.” An ass boasts that he is better than an elephant. A gilt coin, says Tuka, is not gold.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2491
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents