ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
పేరు గంగానమ్మ, తాగబోతే నీళ్లు లేవు”
— English Translation:
Your name is mother Ganga, but when I want a drink I find you have no water.Where you think Here are flitches of bacon there are not even hooks to hang them an. (Spanish)

“Telugu Proverb:
పేరంటానికి వచ్చి పెండ్లి కొడుకు వరస యేమి అన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
When she came to the marriage feast she began to enquire how the bridegroom was related to her.i. e. she was enamoured with him.Very unseemly behaviour. ​

“Telugu Proverb:
పేనుకు పెత్తనమిస్తే, తలంతా తెగకొరికినది”
— English Translation:
When power was given to a louse, it bit all over the head.Abuse of authority.

“Telugu Proverb:
పేను కుక్కినా కుక్కుతాడు, చెవ్వి కరిచినా కరుస్తాడు”
— English Translation:
[ The monkey ] may either kill the louse, or bite off the ear.

“Telugu Proverb:
పేదవాని కోపము పెదవికి చేటు”
— English Translation:
When a poor man is angry, he only bursts his own lips.Anger without power is folly. (German.)Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

“Telugu Proverb:
పేదల బిగువు”
— English Translation:
Poor men’s superciliousness.

“Telugu Proverb:
పేడలో పొదిగిన వుల్లిగడ్డ”
— English Translation:
Like an onion set in cow-dung.A bad man in like company.

“Telugu Proverb:
పేడ కుప్పకు దృష్టి మంత్రమా”
— English Translation:
Must the effects of an evil eye be removed from a dunghill ?A cringing speech. "" Should such a worm as I be honored ?""

“Telugu Proverb:
పేగు చుట్టమా, పెట్టు చుట్టమా”
— English Translation:
Is he a blood relation, or a dinner relation ?A table friend is changeable. (French) ​

“Telugu Proverb:
పెరుగూ వడ్లూ కలిపినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like mixing rice in the husk with curds.

“Telugu Proverb:
పెరుగు పెత్తనము చెరుచును”
— English Translation:
Your curds take away the respect due to age.Because they cause eructation.

“Telugu Proverb:
పెరుగుట విరుగుట కొరకే”
— English Translation:
To grow is but to be broken.Ruin follows speedy exaltation.Fortune and glass soon break, alas! (Dutch.)

“Telugu Proverb:
పెరటి చెట్టు మందుకు రాదు”
— English Translation:
The tree in the back yard won’t do for medicine.That which is near is not valued.Far fetch'd and dear bought is good for ladies.A cow from afar gives plenty of milk. (French)

“Telugu Proverb:
పెన్నలో మాన్యము చెప్పినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like allotting glebe land in the Penna.A doubtful benefit.

“Telugu Proverb:
పెన్న దాటితే, పెరుమాళ్ల సేవ”
— English Translation:
When we have crossed the Penna we can visit Perumal.The meaning is “ Let us get over the river first and talk of visiting Perumal (Vishnu) afterwards. —The Penna (Pennar) falls into the sea near Nellore. It is rapid and deep during the monsoon, though its bed is nearly dry for 5 or 6 months of the year.

“Telugu Proverb:
పెద్దల వుసురు పెనుబామై తాకును”
— English Translation:
The sorrow [you have caused ] to the pious will come upon you again like a great serpent.""His mischief shall return upon his own head."" Psalm vii. 16. ​