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“Telugu Proverb:
ఒకరి కలిమికి యేడిస్తే వక కన్ను పోయినది, తనలేమికి యేడిస్తే మరి వక కన్నూ పోయినది”
— English Translation:
By weeping at the good fortune of another he lost one eye, and by weeping at his own ill fortune he lost the other. ​

“Telugu Proverb:
ఏలిన వానికి రేయుం బగులు వకటే”
— English Translation:
Day and night are one to the [Supreme] Ruler.""The darkness and the light are both alike to Thee."" Psalm cxxxix. 12.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఒక్క చెయ్యి తట్టితే, చప్పుడు అవునా”
— English Translation:
If you clap with one hand will there be any sound?Nothing can be done successfully by a single person.One man is no man. (Latin)Two heads are better than one.Hand washes hand, and finger finger. (Greek)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఏలుకోవడానకు వూళ్లు లేవుగాని, యెత్తుకొని తినడానకు వూళ్లు లేవా”
— English Translation:
There are no villages to rule over, but are there not villages to beg in?Said by a beggar refused alms.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఒక వూరికి వెయ్యి దోవలు”
— English Translation:
There are a thousand ways to a village.Every man in his way.There are more ways to the wood than one.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఏలేవాని యెద్దు పోతేనేమి, కాచేవాని కన్ను పోతేనేమి.",”
— ,English Translation:
If the master’s ox be lost what is it [to the servant?]. If the watchman’s eye be lost what is it [to the master?].

“Telugu Proverb:
ఒకరిని యిద్దరిని చంపితేనేగాని, వైద్యుడు కాడు”
— English Translation:
A man is no Doctor until he has killed one or two [patients.]Said to a bungling tyro.If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఐశ్వర్యానికి అంతము లేదు”
— English Translation:
There is no limit to riches.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఒక్కొక్కరాయి తీస్తూ వుంటే, కొండయినా తరుగుతుంది”
— English Translation:
If you remove stone by stone, even a mountain will be levelled.You must pluck out the hairs of a horse's tail one by one. (Latin)Drop by drop the lake is drained.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఐసా ఫయిసా”
— English Translation:
Either one way or the other.(Corrupted from the Hindustani.)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఒరగబెట్టి తాగేది చెరిచెరా కంచరవాడు”
— English Translation:
The brazier has spoilt the dish which before I ate out of slantingly (on account of the hole in it).

“Telugu Proverb:
ఒంటికి లేని వ్యాధి కొని తెచ్చుకొన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like buying and bringing a disease with which the body is not troubled.Willfully bringing trouble on one’s self.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఒళ్లు వంగనమ్మ కాలి మెట్టెలను కందిపోయినదట,”
— ,English Translation:
The lazy woman complained that her toe-rings pinched her.Idle folks lack no excuses.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఒంటికి వోర్వలేనమ్మ రెంటికి వోర్చునా,”
— ,English Translation:
Will the woman who cannot bear one [trouble] bear two?

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— English Translation:
“ Well, swollen-bodied Reddi! how do you sell your paddy?”“ The want of it alone has made my whole body swell,” he replied._ The Hindus believe that longing for any desired object causes the legs and face to swell.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఒక కంచాన తిని వక మంచాన పడుకొనేవారు”
— English Translation:
They eat of one dish and sleep on one bed.Extreme intimacy.They are hand and glove.