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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.

Telugu Proverb:
పుచ్చకాయ దొంగ అంటే, భుజము తడిమి చూచుకొన్నాడట
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.

Telugu Proverb:
పిల్లి బ్రహ్మహంత
English Translation:
Kill a cat, kill a Brahman.Doing harm to a cat is considered as sinful as injuring a Brahman.