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“ ഉടുപ്പാനില്ലാഞ്ഞാൽ എങ്ങിനെ അയലിന്മേലിടും”
English Translation:
If one has no clothes to wear, how can one hang laundry on the clothesline? (When you lack the bare necessities to survive, you cannot put on an outward display of luxury and vanity.)

“ പേടിക്കുകാടുദേശം പോരാ”
English Translation:
For chronic cowardice, an entire country of forests is not large enough. (A fearful mind can never find a hiding place secure enough; the dread lives within, not in the terrain.)

“ ഉമ്മരപ്പടിമെൽ ഇരിക്കരുതു”
English Translation:
Do not sit upon the threshold. (Do not straddle boundaries or obstruct the flow of good fortune and passage.)