ProverbPedia

Tamil Proverb:
"அது அதற்கு ஒரு கவலை, ஐயாவுக்கு எட்டுக் கவலை.
English Translation:
Each object is attended by a single anxiety, whereas the master has eight.",

Tamil Proverb:
"அதைவிட்டாலும் கதியில்லை, அப்புறம்போனாலும் வழியில்லை.
English Translation:
If that is renounced there is no help, if you go further there is no way.Spoken of evils from which there is no escape.",

Tamil Proverb:
"அத்தைக்கு மீசைமுளைத்தாற், சிற்றப்பா என்கலாம்.
",English Translation: Should the mustache of one’s aunt grow we may call her uncle.Referring to improbable contingencies.,

Tamil Proverb:
அண்ணாக்கும் தொண்டையும் அதிர அடைத்தது.
English Translation:
It obstructed the throat and the uvula so as to cause them to quake.,

Tamil Proverb:
அண்டாத பிடாரி ஆருக்கு அடங்குவாள்?
English Translation:
Whom will the unapproachable demoness obey?The term Pidári is generally applied to a village goddess who is regarded as an evil being.,

Tamil Proverb:
அண்ணன் கொம்பு பம்பழ பளாச்சு.
English Translation:
The horn of my elder brother is as soft (harmless) as a shivered stick.The foxes of a certain region familiar with the hare had, for a long time, an idea that its fine long ears were formidable horns, and therefore kept aloof from it. At length an old fox proposed that they should try to ascertain the nature of the extraordinary excrescences on its head; and suggested that some of their neighbours should be invited to a feast. This was done; and when all things were ready the foxes led their guests into the festive hall and they were seated a fox and a hare alternately, at table. During the feast one of the foxes professing great admiration for the fine horns of their guests, laid his hand upon one and looking round uttered the Proverb. On hearing this, each fox seized and devoured the hare next to him.",

Tamil Proverb:
அதிகாரி வீட்டில் திருடித் தலையாரி வீட்டில் வைத்ததுபோல.
English Translation:
As one placed in the house of the headman what he had stolen in the house of the chief.Said of a thing done unwittingly.,

Tamil Proverb:
அண்ணாமலையார் அருளுண்டானால் மன்னார்சாமி மயிரைப் பிடுங்குமா?
English Translation:
If the favour of Annámalai (Siva) be obtained, will the god Mannár pull out a hair?Safe as regards an inferior, if protected by a superior.",

Tamil Proverb:
"அண்ணனிடத்தில் ஆறு மாதம் வாழ்ந்தாலும், அண்ணியிடத்தில் அரை நாழிகை வாழலாமா?
English Translation:
Although one may live six months with an elder brother, one cannot abide with his wife even half an hour.The first condition is proverbially difficult, how much more so the second?",

Tamil Proverb:
அண்டை வீட்டுச் சண்டை கண்ணுக்கு குளிர்ச்சி.
English Translation:
A quarrel in a neighbouring house is refreshing.Spoken of envious persons who may be supposed to delight in a neighbour's shortcomings or misfortunes.,

Tamil Proverb:
அண்ணன் உண்ணாதது எல்லாம் மைத்துனிக்கு லாபம்.
English Translation:
Whatever is left uneaten by my elder brother is an advantage to my sister-in-law.,

Tamil Proverb:
"அண்ணாமலையாருக்கு அறுபத்துநாலு பூசை, ஆண்டிகளுக்கு எழுபத்துநாலு பூசை.
",English Translation: The forms of worship prescribed for Siva are sixty-four; whereas the seasons for feeding religious mendicants are seventy-four.,