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Telugu Proverb:
ఈ కంటికి యీ రెప్పలు దూరమా,
,English Translation: .Are these eyelids distant from this eye ?Applied to any thing which can easily be tested by actual observation.

Telugu: ఇస్తే పెండ్లి, యివ్వకపోతే పెటాకులు
English Translation: If you give, [I shall consider there is] a marriage [in your house] and if you don’t give, a funeral.The impertinent speech of a beggar.

Telugu Proverb:
ఈతకంటే మించిన లోతు లేదు
English Translation:
When a man has to swim it matters not what the depth is.When a man determines to face his diffiiculties nothing daunts him.Over shoes, over boots.It is all the same whether a man has both legs in the stocks or one. (German) ​

Telugu Proverb:
ఈ చేత చేసి ఆ చేత అనుభవించినట్టు
English Translation:
Doing with this hand, and receiving the reward with that.Said of the certain result of either a good or bad deed.As you sow you shall reap.As you make your bed, so you must lie on it.

Telugu Proverb:
ఈగకు యిలి, పాముకు బలి పుట్టదు.",
,English Translation: No food for a fly not offering for a snake.Said of a miscr’s house.Ye’ll brok your neck as soon as your fast i' his house. (Scotch)

Telugu Proverb:
ఈ కంటికి యీ రెప్పలు దూరమా
English Translation:
Are these eyelids distant from this eye ?Applied to any thing which can easily be tested by actual observation.

Telugu Proverb:
ఇస్తే పెండ్లి, యివ్వకపోతే పెటాకులు
English Translation:
If you give, [I shall consider there is] a marriage [in your house] and if you don’t give, a funeral.The impertinent speech of a beggar.

Telugu Proverb:
ఇస్తే చెడేది లేదు, చస్తే వచ్చేది లేదు
English Translation:
If a man gives, he will not be ruined; when a man dies, he carries nothing with him.Give and spend, and God will send.The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.“When he dieth he shall carry nothing away."" Psalm xlix. l7.

Telugu Proverb:
ఇస్తి వాయనము, పుచ్చుకొంటి వాయనము
English Translation:
I gave cakes and took cakes.(Sec No. 290.)Vayanam is a gift of cakes, &c., to a Brahman.Taking as much as you give.To one who has a pie in the oven you may give a bit of your cake. (French)

Telugu Proverb:
ఇసుక తక్కిడి, పేడ తక్కిడి
English Translation:
Cheating with sand, cheating with cowdung.Two travellers met: one had a bundle of sand, the other a bundle of cowdung; one said his bundle contained raw rice, the other that his contained boiled rice. They agreed to exchange, and immediately ran off in different directions, each to find himself outwitted by the other. (See story 54, in Telugu Selections).One trick is met by another. (Spanish)

Telugu Proverb:
ఇల్లే తీర్థం, వాకిలే వారణాశి, కడుపే కైలాసం
English Translation:
My house is my holy place; my threshold is Benares; my belly is my heaven.Said by an irreligious man.“Whose God is their belly."" Philippians iii. 18.

Telugu Proverb:
ఇషుంట రమ్మంటే, యిల్లంతా చేకొన్నట్టు
English Translation:
Like taking possession of the whole house, when asked to come in for a while.Give a rogue an inch and he will take an ell. (Dutch)