ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
అయితే ఆరుగ, కాకుంటే కంది”
— English Translation:
If the Aruga fails, we shall have Kandi.(For Âruga see No. 88. For Kandi see No. 32)These are both sown together. The Âruga crop sometimes perishes.To have two strings to one's bow.Good riding at two anchors men have told; For if one break, the other may hold.

“Telugu Proverb:
అయినవారందరు ఆ దోవను పోగా, జంగాన్ని పట్టుకొని జాము యేడ్చినాడు”
— English Translation:
When all his friends went away, he caught hold of a Jangam and cried for three hours.Taking an unconcerned person into your counsels.Jamu is a watch of three hours, the day from sunrise to sunset being divided into four Jamus.

“Telugu Proverb:
అయ్యకు రెండో పెండ్లి అని సంతోషమేకాని, అమ్మకు సవితిపోరు అని యెరగడు”
— English Translation:
[The son] is glad that his father has taken a second wife, but he little knows what quarrels there will be between her and his mother.

“Telugu Proverb:
అభ్యాసము కూసువిద్య”
— English Translation:
Practice [makes] art easy.Practice makes perfect.Custom makes all things easy.

“Telugu Proverb:
అయ్యకు విద్యా లేదు, అమ్మకు గర్వమూ లేదు”
— English Translation:
When the husband has no learning, the wife has no pride.

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— English Translation:
When the unpractised Reddi got into a palankin, it swung from side to side.

“Telugu Proverb:
అయ్య దాసండ్లకు పెట్టితే, అమ్మ జంగాలకు పెట్టినది”
— English Translation:
When the master fed the Dasaris (devotees of Vishnu), the mistress fed the Jangams (devotees of Siva ).Applied to a spirit of contradiction.

“Telugu Proverb:
అపకారియినా వుపకారమే చెయ్యవలెను”
— English Translation:
You should do good even to him who has done you evil.""If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink."" Proverbs xxv. 21. ​

“Telugu Proverb:
అప్పటిమాటలకు దుప్పటి యిచ్చినానుగాని, కలకాలము కప్పుకోనిచ్చినానా”
— English Translation:
I presented you with the robe in return for the compliments you then paid me, but did I intend you to wear it for ever ?A liberal gift regretted and withdrawn.Give a thing and take again, And you shall ride in hell's wain.

“Telugu Proverb:
అప్పు ఆకటికి వచ్చునా”
— English Translation:
Will a debt be repaid when you are hungry ?Can you ever get a debt repaid when you are in want?

“Telugu Proverb:
అప్పవంక బావచుట్టము, ఆళ్లవంక తిరగలి చుట్టము.",”
— ,English Translation:
He is nothing to me but my sister’s husband; the millstone is only valued for the grain it grinds.Allu is the plural of Aruga ( Paspalum Scrobiculatmn )

“Telugu Proverb:
అప్పు దొరికితే పప్పుకూడు”
— English Translation:
If I could raise a loan, [I should be able to live on] dal and rice.An excuse made by a host for treating his guest with poor fare.

“Telugu Proverb:
అప్పు మొప్పు”
— English Translation:
Debt is misfortune.Debt is the worst poverty.

“Telugu Proverb:
అప్పు యిచ్చినవాడు బాగుకోరును, తీసుకొన్నవాడు చెడగోరును”
— English Translation:
Your creditor will wish you well, your debtor will wish you ill.He that doth lend doth lose his friend.Money lent, an enemy made. (Portuguese) ​

“Telugu Proverb:
అప్పు లేకపోతే వుప్పుగంజే మేలు”
— English Translation:
Rice water and salt without debt are good.Without debt. without care. (Italian)He is rich enough who owe: nothing. (French)

“Telugu Proverb:
అప్పులేని గంజి దొప్పెడే చాలును”
— English Translation:
A cupful of rice water without debt is enough.Out of debt, out of danger.Happy is he who owes nothing. (Greek)