ProverbPedia

Tamil Proverb:
எழுதிய விதி அழுதால் தீருமா?
English Translation:
Will destiny be averted by weeping?,

Tamil Proverb:
எழுதி வழங்கான் வாழ்க்கை கழுதை புரண்ட களம்.
English Translation:
The condition of the man who keeps no accounts is like the place in which an ass has rolled itself.,

Tamil Proverb:
எழுதாக் கடனுக்கு அழுதால் தீருமா?
English Translation:
Will crying avail for money lent of which no account has been kept?,

Tamil Proverb:
எவன் ஆகிலும் தான் சாக மருந்து உண்பானா?
English Translation:
Will any one take medicine to poison himself?,

Tamil Proverb:
எல்லை பாழ்பட்டாலும் கொல்லைக்கடமை விடார்.
English Translation:
Though the landmarks be destroyed, they will not remit the ground-rent.",

Tamil Proverb:
எல்லாரும் ஏறி இளைத்த குதிரையில் சாஸ்திரியார் ஏறிச் சறுக்கி விழுந்தார்.
English Translation:
On mounting a jaded horse that all had ridden, the astrologer slipped and fell down.",

Tamil Proverb:
"எல்லாம் அறிந்தும், கழுநீர்ப்பானையில் கையிடுகிறதா?
English Translation:
What, is one who knows all things, to put his hand into filthy water?",

Tamil Proverb:
எல்லோரும் கப்பல் ஏறியாயிற்று இனி அம்மனார் பொற்பட்டம் கட்டப்போகிறார்.
English Translation:
All have embarked, my uncle is about to receive a golden mark of distinction.Spoken of aspirations beyond one’s merits.",

Tamil Proverb:
"எல்லா வேலையும் செய்வான், செத்தால் பிழைக்கமாட்டான்.
English Translation:
He can do all things, but when dead he cannot resuscitate himself.",

Tamil Proverb:
"எல்லாரும் நல்லாரா, கல் எல்லாம் மாணிக்கமா?
English Translation:
Are all men good men, are all stones rubies?",

Tamil Proverb:
எல்லாத் தாட்டோட்டும் குல்லாவுக்குள்ளே இருக்கிறது.
English Translation:
All the skill in steering centres in the out-rigger.Out-rigger boats or canoes are common on the south western coast of Ceylon. They are very swift and most safe. In 1848 when at Colombo duty called me daily to a large ship at the time out in the offing anchored in seven fathoms of water. On the occasion under notice I went on board in an ordinary Cingalese out-rigger canoe. In the evening after having completed the berths, for my two daughters who were going home for education, I betook myself to the boat, and soon after we got clear of the ship the boat was struck in the stern, filled, and went down. When I emerged from the waves I found myself near one of the two brackets of the out-rigger. The canoe was submerged but could not sink lower than the ends of the brackets tied to her side. The out-rigger at the other end of the brackets was floating on the surface of the sea, the canoe being suspended by it like a pair of scales from a beam. Aided by one of those brackets, which I pressed to my bosom, and a Chubb's Palanquin box, I gained the rocks soon after sunset and escaped to land.",

Tamil Proverb:
எல்லா ஓட்டும் குல்லாவிலே.
English Translation:
All our progress depends on the outrigger.,