ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
తాదిన తవుడు లేదు, వారానికి వక పందిపిల్ల”
— English Translation:
He has not even bran to eat, but he wants a pig every week.

“Telugu Proverb:
తామరాకులో నీళ్లు తల్లడించినట్టు,”
— ,English Translation:
Like a drop of water on a lotus leaf.A very unsettled state.

“Telugu Proverb:
తానుండేది దాలిగుంట పట్టు, తలచేవి మేడా మాళిగెలు”
— English Translation:
He lives in a pit, but dreams of castles.His ideas are far above his position.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాళిమి తన్నూ కాచును యెదిరినీ కాచును”
— English Translation:
Patience will save you and your neighbour.

“Telugu Proverb:
తానుచేశిన పాపం తనువుతో, తల్లిచేశిన పాపం ధరణితో”
— English Translation:
The sin which a man commits goes with his body, the sin which his mother commits goes with the earth.This is interpreted to mean that if a man commits the sin of adultery, his crime may be expiated by a punishment equal to loss of life, but if a woman is guilty of the same offence, it clings to her descendants as long as the world endures.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాను పట్టిన కుందేటికి మూడే కాళ్లు”
— English Translation:
The hare he caught had only three legs.Said of a pertinaceous person.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాను పట్టిన కోడికి నాలుగు కాళ్లు”
— English Translation:
The hen he has caught has four legs.Exaggeration.All his geese are swans.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాను పెంచిన పొట్టేలు తన చేతనే చంపబడ్డట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like the ram reared by one’s self being killed by one’s own hand.

“Telugu Proverb:
తా చెడ్ద కోతి వనమెల్లా చెరిచినది”
— English Translation:
The monkey ruined himself, and all the forest after him.24

“Telugu Proverb:
తల్లి చెవుల మద్దికాయలు దండగలకు, భార్య మెళ్లో పూసలు బోగాలవారికి”
— English Translation:
His mother’s ear-ornaments went to pay fines, and his wife’s necklace of beads to pay harlots.

“Telugu Proverb:
తల్లిచెవులు తెంచిన వాడికి ముత్తవతల్లి చెవులు వెంట్రుక మాత్రము”
— English Translation:
The man who tears [the ornaments out of] his mother’s ears, will not care a rush for the ears of his great-grand mother.

“Telugu Proverb:
తల్లిదే వలపక్షము, ధరణీదేవిదే వలపక్షము”
— English Translation:
Partiality belongs to a mother and to the earth.A mother is partial to some of her children, and the earth is unequal in its favors, bringing forth more for one than for another.

“Telugu Proverb:
తల్లి దైవము, తండ్రి ధనము”
— English Translation:
A mother is a divinity, a father a treasure.

“Telugu Proverb:
తల్లిని చూచి పిల్లనూ పాడిని చూచి బర్రెనూ తీసుకోవలెను”
— English Translation:
Look at the mother before you take the daughter; see how much milk the buffalo gives before you buy her.

“Telugu Proverb:
తల్లి పుట్టిల్లు మేనమామ వద్ద పొగడినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Will you boast of your mother’s family before your maternal uncle ?

“Telugu Proverb:
తల్లి రోశిన పిల్లను దాది రోయదా”
— English Translation:
Will not the nurse hate the child which is hated by its mother ?