ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
పాముతో చెలిమి, కత్తితో సాము”
— English Translation:
Friendship with a snake, fencing with a sword.32

“Telugu Proverb:
పాకలపాటి వారి రణకొమ్ము”
— English Translation:
The war horn of the Pâkalapâti family.Said of a loquacious person.

“Telugu Proverb:
పాటిమీది గంగానమ్మకు కూటిమీదనే లోకము”
— English Translation:
The goddess Gangânamma who presides over the burial ground, thinks of nothing but eating [the corpses].Entirely given to the selfish pursuit of one object.

“Telugu Proverb:
పాటు పడితే భాగ్యము కలుగును”
— English Translation:
If you are industrious, you will become rich.

“Telugu Proverb:
పయికము లేనివాడు పరస్త్రీ వర్జితుడు”
— English Translation:
A man without money is chaste.

“Telugu Proverb:
పాటు కలిగితే కూటికి కొదవా”
— English Translation:
If you get work, will food be wanting?

“Telugu Proverb:
పయిబడ్డ మాటా, మడి పడ్డ నీళ్లూ పోతవా”
— English Translation:
Will an accusation [be forgotten], will water which falls in a banked field escape ?Throw much dirt, and some will stick.An ill wound may be cured, but not an ill name.

“Telugu Proverb:
పాడిందే పాడరా పాచిపండ్ల దాసరి”
— English Translation:
Sing again what you have sung, O Dâsari with dirty teeth.Said to an ignorant imposter.Give the piper a penny, and two pence to leave off.

“Telugu Proverb:
పరద్రవ్యాణి బెల్లవత్”
— English Translation:
The property of others is as sweet as molasses.Being liberal at others’ expence.To out large shiver of another man's loaf.

“Telugu Proverb:
పాడు వూరికి నక్క తలారి”
— English Translation:
A jackal is the watchman of a ruined village.( See Nos. 830, 1413.)Applied to a person who gets on well with his work when there is no one to question him.

“Telugu Proverb:
పరుగెత్తుతూ పాలు తాగేకన్నా, నిలుచుండి నీళ్లు తాగడము మేలు”
— English Translation:
It’s better to stand and drink water, than to run and drink milk.A comfortable berth with a moderate salary, is better than a bad situation with a larger income.

“Telugu Proverb:
పాడు వూరికి మంచపు కోడు పోతరాజు”
— English Translation:
In a ruined village, the leg of a bed is Pota Razu.Pôta Râzu is a rustic deity.

“Telugu Proverb:
పరుగెత్తేవాణ్ని చూస్తే తరిమే వాడికి లోకువ”
— English Translation:
The man that runs away, is inferior to the man who follows him.

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— English Translation:
He said “ in this ruined village there is no one to praise me, so I praise myself.”Your trumpeter’s dead, and so you trumpet yourself.

“Telugu Proverb:
పదిరాళ్లు వేస్తే వకరాయి అయినా తగలదా”
— English Translation:
If you throw ten stones, will not one hit?

“Telugu Proverb:
పదిమందిలో పడ్డపాము చావదు”
— English Translation:
A snake falling among a lot of people will not die.A bad man often escapes through the difference of opinion among others as to his guilt, as a snake does through the Hindu’s superstitious dread of killing it.