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“Telugu Proverb:
నూనె పోగొట్టుకొన్నవాడూ యేడ్చినాడు, బొండాపకాయల వాడూ పొర్లి పొర్లి యేడ్చినాడు”
— English Translation:
The man who lost the oil cried, and the oocoanut man cried bitterly.A bullock laden with pots of oil belonging to one man and unpeeled cocoanuts belonging to another rolled over. The pots broke, but the cocoanuts were none the worse. The first man cried quietly, but thesecond was loud in his lamentations.Making a. fuss about nothing.

“Telugu Proverb:
నీరు నీరు వంకనే పారుతున్నది”
— English Translation:
Water runs towards water.Men haste to help those of their own caste, 8:0.

“Telugu Proverb:
నిజమాడితే నిష్ఠురము”
— English Translation:
If you tell the truth [it causes] annoyance.(scum. 320, m1.)Truth i: bitter-food. ('Dlnhln)‘

“Telugu Proverb:
నివురు కప్పిన నిప్పు సామిత”
— English Translation:
Fire covered with embers.Said of a very learned and humble man.‘ Dame donde ms sslente, que yo me hare donde me acueste. ​

“Telugu Proverb:
నిజము నిలకడమీద తెలుసును”
— English Translation:
Truth will be known in time.Truth is the daughter of time.

“Telugu Proverb:
నిష్ఠ నీళ్ల పాలు, మంత్రము మూలాల పాలు”
— English Translation:
His religious rites go to the water, and his Mantras to the Pariahs.Said of a great formnlist. Most of the religious rites of the Brahmans are performed with water. The sacred formulas (Mantras) ought according to the S'Astras to be pronounced in a low voice, inaudible to the people.

“Telugu Proverb:
నిత్యము చచ్చేవారికి యేడ్చేవారు యెవరు”
— English Translation:
Who are the mourners over people that die every day’!Those who always say their death is near.Said of a. man continually requiring to be corrected in his work.

“Telugu Proverb:
నీ అరచేతికి పండ్లు వస్తే చూతాము”
— English Translation:
When teeth grow in the palm of your hand, I’ll listen to you.

“Telugu Proverb:
నిద్రపొయ్యేవాణ్ని లేపవచ్చునుగాని, మేలుకొన్న వాణ్ని లేపకూడదు”
— English Translation:
You can wake a person who is asleep, but not one who isawake None so dcaf as those who won't hear. None so blind as those who won't see.' Smdhed er en sum’ Kent.

“Telugu Proverb:
నీకు రానిదీ నాకు విన సహించనిదీ పాడుమన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Sing something that you don’t know and that I cannot hear to hear.Asking something which is impossible.

“Telugu Proverb:
నిద్రపోయిన వాడి కాళ్లకు మొక్కినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like falling at the feet of a sleeping man.Useless endeavours at a wrong time.

“Telugu Proverb:
నీకు రానిదీ, నేను విననిదీ, భూలోకములో లేనిదీ చెప్పుమన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Tell me something that you never knew, that I never heard, and that never existed in the world.

“Telugu Proverb:
నిన్న కుప్పా నేడు ఆళ్లు”
— English Translation:
Yesterday there was a heap [of cut corn ], to-day there is Allu [thrashed].(For .igu no No. s2.) Sudden advancement, speedy progress._Yesterday a cowherd, to-day a cavalier. (Spanish-P

“Telugu Proverb:
నీకూ నాకూ కాదు, రోలెత్తి తలబ్రాలు పోయుమన్నట్టు.",”
— ,English Translation:
You and I don’t like each other; let us throw the mortar over each other's heads instead of rice.( For Rdlu see No- 1141-)Said by one of an ill matched pair at their marriage.- Talabrzilu is the rice poured over the head of the bride and bridegroom.

“Telugu Proverb:
నిప్పుకు చెదలంటునా”
— English Translation:
Will white ants attack fire’!

“Telugu Proverb:
నీకు వక దండము, నీ బువ్వకు వక దండము”
— English Translation:
A bow to you, a bow to your food.Said when oil‘ered bad food. ​