ProverbPedia

“Tamil:
“அஞ்சு காசுக்குக் குதிரையும் வேண்டும், அதுவும் ஆற்றைக் கடக்கப் பாயவும் வேண்டும்.”
“,”English Translation:
A horse is required for five cash, and he must be able to leap over a river.Used in derision when great results are expected from inadequate means.”,

“Tamil:
அச்சம் இல்லாதவன் அம்பலம் ஏறுவான்.”
English Translation:
The fearless goes into the assembly.Used of those who have more courage than discretion.,

“Tamil:
அஞ்சுக்கு இரண்டு பழுதில்லை.”
“English Translation:
Of the five senses two are uninjured.Used with reference to some, of several desiderated objects that have been accomplished, or of some things that remain uninjured.”,

“Tamil:
அச்சாணி இல்லாத தேர் முச்சாணும் ஓடாது.”
“English Translation:
A car without a linch-pin will not move even three spans.Intimating that appliances however trivial cannot be disposed with, and that the best instruments and weapons require due management.”,

“Tamil:
“அஞ்சு பணம் கொடுத்தாலும், இத்தனை ஆத்திரம் ஆகாது.”
“,”English Translation:
Even if you were to give away five fanams, such haste or precipitation will not do.Precipitance in judgment is worse than actual loss.”,

“Tamil:
“அச்சிக்குப் போனாலும், அகப்பை அரைக்காசு.”
“,”English Translation:
Though taken to Achchi, a wooden ladle will fetch only half a cash.Achchi being a prosperous place, cooking utensils are there in great demand, yet even there this inferior article will bring no more than its value.Spoken of the intrinsic value of a thing.”,

“Tamil:
அஞ்சு குஞ்சும் கறியாமே? அறியாப் பெண்ணும் பெண்டாமோ?”
English Translation:
Are five young birds a curry? Is a young girl a wife?,

“Tamil:
அச்சியிலும் பிச்சைக்காரர் உண்டு.”
English Translation:
There are beggars even in Achchi.See the preceding proverb.,

“Tamil:
அச்சனக்காரன் முதுகில் வஞ்சனைக்காரன் ஏறினான்.”
English Translation:
The cheat has got on the shoulders of the conjurer.Said when one deceiver has got the better of another.,

“Tamil:
அஞ்சா நெஞ்சு படைத்தால் ஆருக்கு ஆவான்?”
English Translation:
Who will tolerate a presumptuous or impudent man?,

“Tamil:
அஞ்சலிவந்தனம் ஆருக்கும் நன்மை.”
English Translation:
Deferential respect is agreeable to every one.,

“Tamil:
அஞ்சிலே வளையாதது ஐம்பதிலே வளையுமா?”
“English Translation:
Will that which was not bent at five, bend at fifty?”,

“Tamil:
அஞ்சாவது பெண் கெஞ்சினாலும் கிடையாது.”
“English Translation:
A fifth born female cannot be obtained though earnestly sought.A fifth born female is regarded as the special favourite of fortune; an eighth,—as the very opposite.”,

“Tamil:
“அங்கும் இருப்பான் இங்கும் இருப்பான், ஆக்கின சோற்றுக்குப் பங்கும் இருப்பான்.”
“,English Translation:
He is here and there and has a share also in the boiled rice.,

“Tamil:
“அங்கேண்டி மகளே கஞ்சிக்கு அழுகிறாய்? இங்கே வந்தால், காற்றாய்ப் பறக்கலாம்.”
“,”English Translation:
Why, my daughter, are you crying there for kanji? come hither and you may fly as the wind.Spoken of a proffered change which may be for the worse.”,

“Tamil:
அசல் வீடு வாழ்ந்தால் பரதேசம் போகிறதா?”
“English Translation:
Is one to go to a foreign country, because his neighbour prospers?”,