ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
చేసిన పాపము చెప్పితే మానును”
— English Translation:
Sin is removed by confession.Confession of a fault makes half amends.A sin confessed is half forgiven. (Italian)

“Telugu Proverb:
జోగీ జోగీ రాచుకొంటే బూడిదె రాలినది”
— English Translation:
When two Jogis jostled against each other ashes fell [from their bodies].Nothing is to be got out of the quarrels of the poor.

“Telugu Proverb:
చేసుకొన్న వారికి చేసుకొన్నంత మహాదేవ”
— English Translation:
O Mahadéva! what a man does, that does he in full receive.

“Telugu Proverb:
జ్ఞాతిగుర్రు అరిటికర్రు వదలవు”
— English Translation:
The stain of plantain [can never be effaced], the grumbling of cousins never ceases.

“Telugu Proverb:
చేసేది బీద కాపరము, వచ్చేవి రాజ రోగాలు”
— English Translation:
A man living in poor style, attacked by king’s diseases.A poor man having to meet great expenses quite beyond his meansThe cure of the disease alluded to costs much money.

“Telugu Proverb:
చేసేవి నాయకాలు, అడిగేవి తిరిపాలు, పెట్టకుంటే కోపాలు”
— English Translation:
He gives himself the airs of a great man, but begs for alms, and is angry if he gets none.

“Telugu Proverb:
చేదు తింటారా చెట్లు కొడతారా”
— English Translation:
Are you eating bitter or cutting down trees ?Said of anything easy, or profitable.

“Telugu Proverb:
చేసేవి శివపూజలు, చెప్పేవి అబద్ధాలు”
— English Translation:
His employment is the worship of Siva, but his words are lies.A hypocrite.Much praying, but no piety.Beads about the neck and the devil in the heart.

“Telugu Proverb:
చేనిపంట కొయ్యగాలే చెప్పుతుంది”
— English Translation:
The stubble tells the produce of the field.A slight acquaintance suffices to tell what a man is made of.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఛిద్రమునకు చీరపేలు, దరిద్రమునకు తలపేలు.A louse in the clothes is a sign of coming household broils, a louse in the head is a sign of coming poverty.",”
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“Telugu Proverb:
చేనిలో పుట్టిన బీడు యెక్కడికి పోను”
— English Translation:
Can the waste land be taken out of the field ?You. must take the fat with the lean.

“Telugu Proverb:
జంగానికి బిడ్డలు పుట్టితే, వూరికి వుపాధి”
— English Translation:
If children are born to a Jangam they are only an annoyance to the village.Because they will add to the number of beggars. The Jangams are the Vira Saivas or followers of the Hindu reformer Basava.Beggars breed, and rich men feed.

“Telugu Proverb:
చేప పిల్లకు యీత నేర్ప వలెనా”
— English Translation:
Must you teach a young fish to swim ?Don’t teach fish to swim. (French)

“Telugu Proverb:
జగమెరిగిన బ్రాహ్మణునికి జంధ్యమెందుకు”
— English Translation:
What is the use of the sacred thread to a well known Brahman ?That which is well known need not be published.

“Telugu Proverb:
చేనూ కొడవలీ నీ చేత యిచ్చినాను”
— English Translation:
I have given the field and the sickle into your hands.To hand anything over entirely to another. To give another full powers.

“Telugu Proverb:
జడ్డిగములో మిడతపోటు”
— English Translation:
A grasshopper eating the seed in the drilling machine.Premature ruin.