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“Malayalam Proverb:
ആശയുടെ ആധിക്യം ആപത്തിന്നിരിപ്പിടം”
— English Translation:
The excess of desire is the very dwelling place of ruin. (Unchecked greed is the birthplace of disaster.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ആശവലിയൊൻ അതാവുപെട്ടുപോം”
— English Translation:
He whose ambitions are boundless will fall into profound misery. (Vaulting ambition overleaps itself and crashes into despair.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ആശാൻ പിഴച്ചാൽ ഏത്തമില്ല”
— English Translation:
If the teacher blunders, he is spared the punitive sit-ups. (Those who make and enforce rules are rarely subjected to the punishments they impose on subordinates.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ആശാനക്ഷരം ഒന്നുപിഴച്ചാൽ ശിഷ്യന്നക്ഷരം അമ്പത്തൊന്നും”
— English Translation:
If the master errs by a single letter, the disciple blunders across all fifty-one. (A minor mistake by a leader multiplies into total confusion among their followers.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ആശാനുകൊടുക്കാത്തതു വൈദ്യനുകൊടുക്കും”
— English Translation:
What you begrudge paying the teacher, you will ultimately hand over to the physician. (Skimping on education and early discipline costs far more in remedial suffering later.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ആശാരിയുടെ ചേൽ ആദിയും ഒടുവും കഷ്ടം”
— English Translation:
The carpenter's trade is hard at the start and miserable at the finish. (A laborious, unforgiving occupation that offers little comfort from beginning to end.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ആളുക്ക് സഹായം, മരത്തിന് വേർ”
— English Translation:
Humans require mutual support, just as trees require deep roots. (Interdependence is the foundational anchor of human life.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ആൾ അഞ്ചെങ്കിൽ പയിമ്പപത്തു”
— English Translation:
If there are five men, there are ten steering poles. (Too many cooks spoil the broth; contradictory guidance wrecks progress.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ആശ്രയം ഇല്ലാത്തവർക്ക് ഈശ്വരൻ ആശ്രയം”
— English Translation:
For those who have no earthly refuge, God alone is the refuge. (Providence watches over the helpless and forsaken.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ആസനംമുട്ടിയാൽ അമ്പലം വെൺപറമ്പു”
— English Translation:
When bodily urgency turns desperate, even a consecrated temple is treated as an open field. (Dire physiological necessity overrides all sacredness and decorum.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ആറുമാസം ചെന്ന ചേന ആറിതിന്നാൻ പാടില്ലെ”
— English Translation:
Can a yam that took six long months to grow not be allowed a moment to cool before eating? (After waiting patiently through a long endeavor, do not spoil it with reckless impatience at the very end.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ആവൽക്ക് ആവൽ വിരുന്നു വന്നാൽ അങ്ങേ കൊമ്പിലും ഇങ്ങേ കൊമ്പിലും തൂങ്ങിക്കൊള്ളും”
— English Translation:
When one bat visits another as a guest, they simply hang side by side from adjacent branches. (Unpretentious folks accommodate one another effortlessly without elaborate, false formality.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ആറുനൂറുകടക്കിലും കോണകമൊന്നുമതി”
— English Translation:
Even if debts exceed six hundred, a single loincloth is all one needs. (When ruin is total and everything is stripped away, worldly entanglements cease to matter; basic survival is simple.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ആവശ്യക്കാരനു ഔചിത്യമില്ല”
— English Translation:
A person in desperate need has no room for propriety. (Necessity knows no decorum; acute urgency overrides formal etiquette.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ആറ്റരികിൽ കളഞ്ഞാലും (തൂകുവിലും) അളന്നുകളയണം (തൂകണം)”
— English Translation:
Even if you are casting it into the river, measure it before you throw it away. (Maintain strict accounting and discipline, even when writing off a total loss or giving freely.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ആവിയുമില്ല അനക്കവുമില്ല”
— English Translation:
Neither a breath of steam nor a sign of movement. (Completely lifeless, unresponsive, and dead quiet.)