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Telugu: ఔషధానకు అవపథ్యానకు చెల్లు, రోగము పై పెచ్చు
English Translation: [The benefit derived from] the medicine is to be deducted from [the harm done by] carelessness in diet, and the balance remaining is an increase of the disease.Diet cureస్ more than the lancet.The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

Telugu Proverb:
కంచము అమ్మి మెట్టెలు కొన్నట్టు
English Translation:
Selling the dish and buying toe-rings.He has given the hen for the egg. (German)

Telugu Proverb:
కంకణముల చెయ్యి ఆడితే, కడియముల చెయ్యి ఆడును.If the hand with Kankanamulu moves, the hand with Kadiyamulu moves also.Konkanamulu are bracelets worn by women. Kadiyamulu are those worn by men.Where woman leads man follows.",
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Telugu Proverb:
ఔషధానకు అవపథ్యానకు చెల్లు, రోగము పై పెచ్చు
English Translation:
[The benefit derived from] the medicine is to be deducted from [the harm done by] carelessness in diet, and the balance remaining is an increase of the disease.Diet cureస్ more than the lancet.The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

Telugu Proverb:
ఓహో కనుక్కోలేక పోతిరిగదా అన్నట్టు
English Translation:
Aha! so you were not able to find me!Said by a jackass of a bridegroom who had hidden himself on the top of the shed at the time of the marriage, and looked on while the bride was married to another man.

Telugu Proverb:
ఓలి తక్కువ అని గుడ్డిదాన్ని పెండ్లాడితే నెలకు మూడు ఆవాలు
English Translation:
When he married a blind woman, because of the small jointure, [she broke] three kilns of pots a month.False economy.

Telugu Proverb:
ఓలి తక్కువ అని గుడ్డిదాన్ని పెండ్లాడితే, దొంతి కుండలన్నీ పగల కొట్టినదట
English Translation:
When a man married a blind woman, on account of the smallness of the jointure, she broke all the pots in the pile.

Telugu Proverb:
ఓర్చలేనమ్మ వడిని నిప్పులు కట్టుకొంటే, వడీ దడీ కూడా కాలినది
English Translation:
When the envious woman put fire in her waist, her clothes were burnt and the mat screen also.Causing one's own ruin through envy.12

Telugu Proverb:
ఓర్చలేని రెడ్డి వుండీ చెరిచెను, చచ్చీ చెరిచెను
English Translation:
The envious Reddi ruined the village while living, and was a curse to it when dead.A Reddi who had oppressed the people of his village all his life, requested them, when dying, to burn his body in a certain spot. This they willingly acceded to, and took the Reddi’s corpse there for that purpose, when they were attacked by the inhabitants of the neighbouring village, within the limit of which the Reddi had desired to be burned, and this became an everlasting cause of contention. (See Tatachari’s Tales Page 5.)

Telugu Proverb:
ఓరిస్తే ఓరుగల్లు పట్నమవుతుంది
English Translation:
With patience, Orugallu will become a city.(For Orugallu sco No. 1971.)Rome was not built in a day.

Telugu Proverb:
ఓబీ ఓబీ నీవు వడ్లు దంచు, నేను పక్కలు యెగర వేస్తాను
English Translation:
Obi, Obi, you pound the rice, and I’ll shake my sides.(i.e. imitate the action of pounding).Applied to an idle skulk, who pretends to be always busy.Lazy folks take the most pains.

Telugu Proverb:
ఓపనివారికి వద్దన్నవారే తలి తండ్రులు
English Translation:
The lazy man looks upon those as his parents who say “Don’t [work ].”An idler is delighted at every interruption.