ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
పెద్దలతో వాదు, పెతరులతో పొందు.",”
— ,English Translation:
Disputing with the aged [is as wrong as] keeping company with ghosts.

“Telugu Proverb:
పెద్ద పులి యెదటనయినా పడ వచ్చునుగాని, నగరి వారి యెదట పడరాదు.",”
— ,English Translation:
You may face a royal tiger but you should not face a government official.

“Telugu Proverb:
పెద్ద పులి తరుముక వచ్చినా, హజారము ముందరికి పోరాదు”
— English Translation:
Though you be pursued by a tiger, you should not pass in front of the royal court.Applied to a tyrannical Government.

“Telugu Proverb:
పెద్ద తల లేకపోతే, గొర్రె తల తెచ్చుకొమ్మన్నారు”
— English Translation:
If you can’t get a head for the family get a sheep's head.Better than nothing.When you can’t get bread, oat cakes are not amiss. (Spanish)

“Telugu Proverb:
పెద్ద కొడుకు పెండ్లీ, అసుర భోజనము”
— English Translation:
The eldest son’s marriage, and the giant’s dinner.A giant had to be supplied with a man daily by the villagers in turn.A happy event and a great misfortune coming together.

“Telugu Proverb:
పెదిమ దాటితే, పెన్న దాటుతున్నది”
— English Translation:
If it passes your lips it will go over the Penna river.( For Penna see No. 1528 — See Nos. 47, 525, 685.)A secret revealed spreads quickly abroad.Three may keep counsel if two be away.Two eyes, two ears, only one mouth. (German) ​

“Telugu Proverb:
పెదిమకు మించిన పల్లు, ప్రమితకు మించిన వత్తి”
— English Translation:
A tooth projecting beyond the lip, a wick too big for the oil dish.Said of an insolent fellow.He is on the high ropes

“Telugu Proverb:
పెద బావగారు ఆడంగులతో సమము”
— English Translation:
The elder brother-in-law is like a woman.Said of a stupid clumsy person.

“Telugu Proverb:
పెట్టు పోతలు శాశ్వతములా”
— English Translation:
Will the meat and drink last for ever?Can one expect to live always on the bounty of others ?

“Telugu Proverb:
పెట్టు చుట్టము, పొగుడు భాగ్యము”
— English Translation:
Entertainments [bring] relations, flattery [brings] fortune.While the pot boils friendship blooms. (German)

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— English Translation:
She that gave neither food nor drink, beat [me] and said ""be off""Said by a beggar.

“Telugu Proverb:
పెట్టిన వారికి పుట్టినదే సాక్షి, పెట్టని వారికి పుట్టనిదే నిజము”
— English Translation:
The aims received witness to those who gave; those who gave not, truly do not receive.If the charitable become poor, they will not ask for help in vain ; but the uncharitable will obtain nothing. ​

“Telugu Proverb:
పెట్టిన వానికి తెలుసును నిక్షేపము”
— English Translation:
The treasure is known to the man who buried it.

“Telugu Proverb:
పెట్టినమ్మకు ప్రాణహాని చెప్పినమ్మకు జన్మహాని”
— English Translation:
She that gives will lose her life, she that advised will lose [the advantage of] her birth.The story runs thus: In the city of Matipuram, dwelt a king named Nayaśâli. He had three wives named Sumédâh, Suvarchalâ, and Nitimati. Sumédâh was blessed with a son; her rival wives, being barren, were less loved by the king. This caused them to be jealous of Surmédâh, and Nitimati counselled Suvarchalâ to poison the son, saying that afterwards they would share the king's favor equally with their more fortunate rival. Suvarchalâ consulted in the matter with her intimate friend Vichitravati,the minister's daughter: Vichitravati after some deliberation replied "" She that gives will lose her life, she that advised will lose her birth"" (i.e. will be banished from the king's presence.) Suvarchalâ profiting by her friend's advice and perceiving the fatal consequences which would follow the commission of the intended crime, desisted from her wicked purpose.

“Telugu Proverb:
పెట్టితే పెండ్లి, పెట్టక పోతే శ్రాద్ధము”
— English Translation:
If you feast me [I shall consider it] a marriage and if not, a funeral.Fair and foul words.

“Telugu Proverb:
పెట్టితే తింటారుగాని, తిట్టితే పడేవారు లేరు”
— English Translation:
If you feed, [people] will eat; but if you abuse none will bear it.