ProverbPedia

“Telugu:
పొట్టి గట్టి, పొడుగు లొడుగు”
English Translation:
Short and strong, tall and weak.A short man needs no stool to give a great lubber a box on the car. ​

“Telugu:
పేదల బిగువు”
English Translation:
Poor men’s superciliousness.

“Telugu:
పొట్టి పోతరాజు కొలువు”
English Translation:
The service of Potti Pota Razu.A worrying fellow, of whom it is said that when his followers were behind him. he abused them for treating him as their (Pariah) guide; when they went before him, he accused them of acting as if they were his superiors; and when they travelled at each side of his palankin, he reprimanded them for daring to place themselves on an equality with himself.

“Telugu:
పేదవాని కోపము పెదవికి చేటు”
English Translation:
When a poor man is angry, he only bursts his own lips.Anger without power is folly. (German.)Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

“Telugu:
పొట్టి వాడికి పుట్టెడు బుద్ధులు”
English Translation:
A short man has a Putti of wisdom.

“Telugu:
పేను కుక్కినా కుక్కుతాడు, చెవ్వి కరిచినా కరుస్తాడు”
English Translation:
[ The monkey ] may either kill the louse, or bite off the ear.

“Telugu:
పేనుకు పెత్తనమిస్తే, తలంతా తెగకొరికినది”
English Translation:
When power was given to a louse, it bit all over the head.Abuse of authority.

“Telugu:
పెద్దలతో వాదు, పెతరులతో పొందు.”,”
,English Translation:
Disputing with the aged [is as wrong as] keeping company with ghosts.

“Telugu:
పేరంటానికి వచ్చి పెండ్లి కొడుకు వరస యేమి అన్నట్టు”
English Translation:
When she came to the marriage feast she began to enquire how the bridegroom was related to her.i. e. she was enamoured with him.Very unseemly behaviour. ​

“Telugu:
పేరు గంగానమ్మ, తాగబోతే నీళ్లు లేవు”
English Translation:
Your name is mother Ganga, but when I want a drink I find you have no water.Where you think Here are flitches of bacon there are not even hooks to hang them an. (Spanish)

“Telugu:
పెద్దల వుసురు పెనుబామై తాకును”
English Translation:
The sorrow [you have caused ] to the pious will come upon you again like a great serpent.””His mischief shall return upon his own head.”” Psalm vii. 16. ​

“Telugu:
పేరు పల్లకీ మీద, కాలు నేల మీద”
English Translation:
His name is in the palankin, and his legs on the groundi. e. be once rode, but now walks.

“Telugu:
పెన్న దాటితే, పెరుమాళ్ల సేవ”
English Translation:
When we have crossed the Penna we can visit Perumal.The meaning is “ Let us get over the river first and talk of visiting Perumal (Vishnu) afterwards. —The Penna (Pennar) falls into the sea near Nellore. It is rapid and deep during the monsoon, though its bed is nearly dry for 5 or 6 months of the year.

“Telugu:
పేరు పెద్ద, వూరు దిబ్బ.”,”
,English Translation:
A great name but the village a heap [of ruins ].

“Telugu:
పెన్నలో మాన్యము చెప్పినట్టు”
English Translation:
Like allotting glebe land in the Penna.A doubtful benefit.

“Telugu:
పేరు పెనిమిటిది, అనుభవము మామగారిది”
English Translation:
The name is my husband’s, the suffering is my father-in law’s.Said by Sita to the Rishis’ wives when they condoled with her on her husband’s sufferings. She knew that Rama’s misfortune was not to be compared with that of her father-in-law Dasaratha who died of grief, cursed by the old hermit whose son he had accidentally killed.The name with one, the reality with another.