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“Telugu Proverb:
పుట్టెడాముదము పట్టించుకొని పొర్లాడినా అంటేదే అంటును గాని అంటనిది అంటదు”
— English Translation:
Although a man besmear himself with a Puțți of castor oil and roll [among the grain] only what sticks, will stick to him, what does not, won’t.A Puțți is 500 lbs.A man can only obtain that which his destiny has prepared for him.Every man hath his lot.No butter will stick to his bread. ​

“Telugu Proverb:
పుట్టిన యిన్నాళ్ళకు పురుషుడు యజ్ఞము చేశెను”
— English Translation:
After living for so many years the man performed a sacrifice.Good luck comes at last.Fortune knock: once at least at every man's gale.Fortune is like the market, where if you hide your time, the price will fall.

“Telugu Proverb:
పుట్టిన పిల్లలు బువ్వకు యేడిస్తే, అవ్వ మొగుడికి యేడ్చినది”
— English Translation:
When the children cried for food, the grandmother cried for a husband.Wishing for something quite unsuitable to one’s age. ​

“Telugu Proverb:
పుట్టిననాటి బుద్ధి పుడకలతోగాని పోదు”
— English Translation:
The faggots of the funeral pile alone remove the [evil] qualities with which a man is born.What belongs to nature lasts to the grave. (Italian)

“Telugu Proverb:
పుట్టిన నాటనుంచి పుల్లిగాడే మొగుడా”
— English Translation:
Has Pulligadu been my husband ever since I was born ?Applied to ungrateful servants or dependants.

“Telugu Proverb:
పుట్టించినవాడు పూరి మేపుతాడా”
— English Translation:
Would your Maker feed you with grass ?The Creator provides suitable food for all his creatures ; the benefactors of others need not therefore be proud.

“Telugu Proverb:
పుట్టని బిడ్డకు పేరు పెట్టుతాడు”
— English Translation:
He gives a name to an unborn child.To celebrate the triumph before the victory. (Latin) ​

“Telugu Proverb:
పుట్ట మీద తేలు కుట్టినా, నాగుమయ్య మహిమేనా”
— English Translation:
If one is stung by a scorpion on an ant bill has it the venom of the snake-god ?Puțța is a white ant hill, where snakes are found.Applied to a person supposing himself to have been injured through the malice of an enemy.

“Telugu Proverb:
పుట్టని బిడ్డకు పూసలు కట్టినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Tying beads round an unborn child.Don't reckon your eggs before they are laid. (Italian.)

“Telugu Proverb:
పుట్టడము చావడము కొరకే”
— English Translation:
To be born is but for death.

“Telugu Proverb:
పుచ్చిన మిరియాలయినా, జొన్నలకు సరి తూగక పోవు”
— English Translation:
Though the pepper be worm eaten, it will weigh as much as the millet.A brave spirit under adverse circumstances.

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— English Translation:
When the robber of the water melon was spoken of, he felt his shoulders.( See No. 786.)Guilty conscience.

“Telugu Proverb:
పుంగనూరు సంస్థానము”
— English Translation:
Like the Punganuru state.Punganuru is in the North Arcot District.No government.

“Telugu Proverb:
పీతాంబరము యెరువిచ్చినమ్మ పీట వెంబడి పట్టుకొని తిరగవలశినది”
— English Translation:
The lady who lent a woman a silk cloth, must walk after her with a stool.If you lend any thing good to a careless person you must take measures to prevent his spoiling it, as the silk cloth would have been spoiled had the woman sat upon the ground. ​1465. పీనుగకు చేశిన జాతర.Carrying a corpse in procession.A vain ceremony.

“Telugu Proverb:
పీటకూ పిర్రకూ వయిరము”
— English Translation:
Enmity between the posteriors and the seat.

“Telugu Proverb:
పిల్లి బ్రాహ్మణుడు, పీట ముత్తైదువ”
— English Translation:
A cat [is as sacred as] a Brahman, and the stool ( used for prayers, &c.) is as sacred as his wife.