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“Telugu:
కాలు జారితే తీసుకోవచ్చునుగాని, నోరు జారితే తీసుకో కూడదు”
English Translation:
If your foot slips you may recover your balance, but if your mouth slips you cannot recall your words.A slip of the foot may be soon recovered; but that of the tongue perhaps never.Better a slip of the foot than of the tongue. (French)A word and a stone once let go cannot be recalled. (Spanish)

— Telugu

Related Mantras

“Telugu:
తానుబోను దోవలేదు డోలు వకటి మెడను”
English Translation:
When there is no room for him to pass himself, he hangs a, big drum round his neck.Said of a man who tries to provide for another, when he has difficulty in managing for himself.

“Telugu:
ఆకలి రుచి యెరగదు, నిద్ర సుఖమెరగదు, వలపు శిగ్గు యెరగదు”
English Translation:
Hunger knows not taste, sleep knows not comfort, lust knows not shame.Hunger is the best sauce.

“Telugu:
నిద్రపొయ్యేవాణ్ని లేపవచ్చునుగాని, మేలుకొన్న వాణ్ని లేపకూడదు”
English Translation:
You can wake a person who is asleep, but not one who isawake None so dcaf as those who won’t hear. None so blind as those who won’t see.’ Smdhed er en sum’ Kent.