ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
ఉత్తముండకన్నా అత్తముండ మేలు”
— English Translation:
A wretch of a mother-in-law is better than a strange slut.A bad bush is better than the open field.Better a lean jade than an empty halter.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈతగింజ యిచ్చి తాటిగింజ లాగేవాడు”
— English Translation:
A man who gives a date stone and takes a palmyra nut.Ita is the wild date (Phoenix Sylvestris ). Tadu is the Palmyra (Borassus FlabelliformisOffering a gift of slight value for the purpose of gaining a rich present.Throw in a spirit to catch a salmon.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈత చెట్టు కింద పాలు తాగినా, కల్లే అంటారు”
— English Translation:
If you even drink milk under a date tree they will say it’s toddy.People are judged by the company they keep.Tell me the company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are.From a river spring clear water flows. (Latin)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇసుక తక్కిడి, పేడ తక్కిడి”
— English Translation:
Cheating with sand, cheating with cowdung.Two travellers met: one had a bundle of sand, the other a bundle of cowdung; one said his bundle contained raw rice, the other that his contained boiled rice. They agreed to exchange, and immediately ran off in different directions, each to find himself outwitted by the other. (See story 54, in Telugu Selections).One trick is met by another. (Spanish)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈతముల్లు విరగ దొక్కే కాలము”
— English Translation:
He is at the age when he can tread on and break a date thorn.Said of an unruly scamp.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇస్తి వాయనము, పుచ్చుకొంటి వాయనము”
— English Translation:
I gave cakes and took cakes.(Sec No. 290.)Vayanam is a gift of cakes, &c., to a Brahman.Taking as much as you give.To one who has a pie in the oven you may give a bit of your cake. (French)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈనగాచి నక్కలపాలు చేశెను”
— English Translation:
He watched [the field] until the harvest, and then let it go to the jaokals.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇస్తే చెడేది లేదు, చస్తే వచ్చేది లేదు”
— English Translation:
If a man gives, he will not be ruined; when a man dies, he carries nothing with him.Give and spend, and God will send.The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.“When he dieth he shall carry nothing away."" Psalm xlix. l7.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈదబోతే తాగ నీళ్లు లేవు”
— English Translation:
When he went to swim, there was not enough water to drink.Disappointed hopes.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇస్తే పెండ్లి, యివ్వకపోతే పెటాకులు”
— English Translation:
.If you give, [I shall consider there is] a marriage [in your house] and if you don’t give, a funeral.The impertinent speech of a beggar.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈ వూరికి ఆ వూరెంతో, ఆ వూరికి యీ వూరంతే.",”
— ,English Translation:
The distance between that village and this village is the same as that between this village and that village.Six of one and half a dozen of the other.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈ కంటికి యీ రెప్పలు దూరమా”
— English Translation:
Are these eyelids distant from this eye ?Applied to any thing which can easily be tested by actual observation.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈ వూళ్లో పెద్దలు యెవరంటే తాళ్లు, దాతలు యెవరంటే చాకళ్లు”
— English Translation:
When asked who were the great (men) in the village, he said “ The Pa1myras;” when asked who were the givers (of presents), he replied “The washermen.”A joke. The Palmyras (see No. 290) are the tallest trees, and the washermen give people back their clothes.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈగకు యిలి, పాముకు బలి పుట్టదు.",”
— ,English Translation:
No food for a fly not offering for a snake.Said of a miscr’s house.Ye’ll brok your neck as soon as your fast i' his house. (Scotch)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఉంగరాల చేతిలో మొట్టితే, నొప్పి వుండదు”
— English Translation:
A rap with ringed fingers will cause no pain.A man who wears rings is generally well oil‘, and therefore pays hand some damages for injuries inflicted.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈ చేత చేసి ఆ చేత అనుభవించినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Doing with this hand, and receiving the reward with that.Said of the certain result of either a good or bad deed.As you sow you shall reap.As you make your bed, so you must lie on it.