ProverbPedia

Telugu Proverb:
కాలము నాటి కందిగింజ, పెద్దల నాటి పెసరగింజ.",
,English Translation: In the ages past he was Kandi and in the time of his fore-fathers he was Pesara.Said of a prosy old fellow who spins long yarns.

Telugu Proverb:
కాలనేమి జపము,
,English Translation: Kalanémi’s prayers.Kalanémi was a pretended sage. (See the Ramayana.-—Yuddha Kanda.)Applied to hypocrisy.

Telugu Proverb:
కార్యం గొప్పా వీర్యం గొప్పా
English Translation:
Is the business of importance or are the means ?

Telugu Proverb:
కార్తెముందర వురిమినా, కార్యము ముందర వదిరినా, చెడుతుంది
English Translation:
If it thunders before the Karts, if you are hasty in a business, it will be spoilt.Karte is ""the particular constellation of the 27 in which the sun happens to be.” The Karte here spoken of is that in which rain should fall. If it thunders before the time, the rain will be insufficient.

Telugu Proverb:
కారణము లేకనే కార్యము పుట్టదు
English Translation:
There is no effect without a cause.Every why has a wherefore.There is a cause for all things. Italian)

Telugu Proverb:
కాని వేళకు కందులు గుగ్గిళ్ళు అయినట్టు
English Translation:
In an unlucky time his Kandi wouldn’t boil soft.

Telugu Proverb:
కాపు వచ్చిన యేడే కరువూ వచ్చినది
English Translation:
The famine came in the very year that the cultivator came to the village.An unfortunate coincidence.

Telugu Proverb:
కానివాడు లేనివాడితో జత
English Translation:
An unfriendly person is equal to one that is not.

Telugu Proverb:
కాని మందం కోటి దుఃఖం
English Translation:
One sixty-fourth part of folly will bring ten millions of sorrows.A little neglect may breed great mischief

Telugu Proverb:
కాని కాలముకు కర్రే పాము అవుతుంది
English Translation:
In your evil hour your own stick will become a snake.i.e. your own friends will turn against you.

Telugu Proverb:
కానని వారి పాయసము గంపలాది అన్నట్టు
English Translation:
Speaking of people who are not known, as having distributed rice-milk by baskets full.Exaggerating the bounty of absent persons.

Telugu Proverb:
కానకుండా కట్టెడిచ్చేను కాని వినకుండా వీరణాలు వాయించేవా
English Translation:
I will give you a bundle of grain without any one else seeing me, but will you play on the double drum without any one else hearing it’?A silly request made by a female, who was not allowed to indulge her taste for music.