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“Telugu Proverb:
కల్పవృక్షము కింద గచ్చపొద వున్నట్టు,”
— ,"English Translation:
Like the Gachcha bush growing round the Kalpa tree.The Gachcha is a thorny bush, (Guilandina Bonducella); the Kalpa is the celestial tree of desire.Applied to a benevolent man surrounded by evil persons, who do not suffer others to approach him.

“Telugu Proverb:
కాటిలో పండినవి కాకులు తిన్నవి”
— English Translation:
The crows ate up the fruit which grew in the forest.Property common to all.14

“Telugu Proverb:
కల్ల పయిడికి గరుకులు మెండు”
— English Translation:
False gold is very rough.

“Telugu Proverb:
కాదు అంటే అరవవాడి చెవ్వి”
— English Translation:
If you say Kadu, it is a Tamilian’s ear.

“Telugu Proverb:
కల్ల పసిడికి కాంతి మెండు”
— English Translation:
False gold is very bright.All is not gold that glitters.

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— English Translation:
When one said “ Kadu, Kadu” the other said “Nadi, Nadi.”Kadu in Telugu means "" it is not,"" ""no"" in Tamil it signifies ""the ear."" A Telugu man on one occasion accidentally stuck the barb of his spear into a Tamilian's ear, on which the latter cried out "" Kadu ! Kadu ! (My ear! my ear!). The Telugu man thinking he meant to say "" Not yours, not yours"" pulled at the spear all the harder, saying ""Nadi! Nadi!"" (It's mine! it's mine !Said to a man who is obstinate in argument.

“Telugu Proverb:
కళ్యాణము వచ్చినా కక్కు వచ్చినా ఆగదు”
— English Translation:
When marriage comes, or vomiting, it cannot be stopped.

“Telugu Proverb:
కానకుండా కట్టెడిచ్చేను కాని వినకుండా వీరణాలు వాయించేవా”
— English Translation:
I will give you a bundle of grain without any one else seeing me, but will you play on the double drum without any one else hearing it’?A silly request made by a female, who was not allowed to indulge her taste for music.

“Telugu Proverb:
కష్ట సుఖాలు రెండూ కావటి కుండల వంటివి”
— English Translation:
Sorrow and joy are like two pots on a Kavadi.Kavadi is the yoke made of a split bamboo, used by lndian coolies. To the ends are slung loads of equal weight.Joy and sorrow are to-day and to-morrow.

“Telugu Proverb:
కానని వారి పాయసము గంపలాది అన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Speaking of people who are not known, as having distributed rice-milk by baskets full.Exaggerating the bounty of absent persons.

“Telugu Proverb:
కాకి కర్రుమంటే గుండె ఝల్లుమంటుంది”
— English Translation:
When the crow cawed, she started.Feigned sensitiveness.

“Telugu Proverb:
కాని కాలముకు కర్రే పాము అవుతుంది”
— English Translation:
In your evil hour your own stick will become a snake.i.e. your own friends will turn against you.

“Telugu Proverb:
కాకి గండాగుండిగాని కోకిల పిరికి”
— English Translation:
The crow is plucky, the cuckoo is cowardly.

“Telugu Proverb:
కాని మందం కోటి దుఃఖం”
— English Translation:
One sixty-fourth part of folly will bring ten millions of sorrows.A little neglect may breed great mischief

“Telugu Proverb:
కాకిని తెచ్చి పంజరములో పెట్టితే చిలుకవలె పలుకునా”
— English Translation:
If you put a crow in a cage will it talk like a parrot?Wash a dog, comb a dog, still a dog is but a dog. (French)

“Telugu Proverb:
కానివాడు లేనివాడితో జత”
— English Translation:
An unfriendly person is equal to one that is not.