ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇత్యర్థలు యిగురు, ఇతిభావలు పులుసు”
— English Translation:
For sweet vegetable [ take your] “plain significations,” and for acid [take your] “deep meanings.”The reply of the wife of s logician (who would pay no attention to household matters and had given her no means of providing food) when he grumbled at the bad fare.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఆలూ మొగునిసందు పోట్లాట అద్దముమీద పెసరగీంజ వేశినంత సేపు”
— English Translation:
A quarrel between man and wife only lasts as long as a Pesara seed stays on a looking glass.(For Pesara see No. 32. )

“Telugu Proverb:
ఆసోది మాటలకు అర్థమూ లేదు, గుడ్డి కంటికి చూపూ లేదు.",”
— ,English Translation:
There is no sense in words of condolence nor sight in a blind eye.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఆలూ లేదు, చూలూ లేదు, కొడుకు పేరు సోమలింగం”
— English Translation:
There is neither wife nor conception, but the son’s name is to be Somalingam.We have no son and yet are giving him a name. (Spaniah.)Count not your chicken: before they are hatched.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఆహారమందూ వ్యవహారమందూ శిగ్గు పడకూడదు”
— English Translation:
In eating and in business you should not be modest.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఆవగింజకు సందువుంటే, అరవై గారెలు అప్పుడే తిననా”
— English Translation:
Had there been room for a mustard seed, would I not have eaten sixty more cakes ?A glutton suffering from indigestion after a feast was recommended to eat some mustard, when he replied as above.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇంగువ కట్టిన గుడ్డ”
— English Translation:
A rag which had held assafoetida.Said of a man who is respected on account of his connection with the family of some famous person, no longer living ; or on account of his own greatness, now passed away.

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— English Translation:
The woman who fed on mustard grew strong.Fattening on poor fare.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇంటింటికీ మట్టి పొయ్యి”
— English Translation:
Every house has an earthen fire-place.Every man has his faults.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఆవలింతకు అన్నదమ్ములున్నారుగాని, తుమ్ముకు తమ్ముడయినా లేడు”
— English Translation:
Yawning has elder and younger brothers, sneezing has not even a younger brother.Yawning is sympathetic, sneezing is not.A good gaper make two gapers. (French)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇంటింటికీ వక మట్టిపొయ్యి అయితే, మాయింట మరి వకటి”
— English Translation:
Every house has an earthen fire-place, my house is still worse off.Acknowledging one’s failings.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఆవాలు ముద్ద చేశినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Making mustard seed into a ball.An impossible combination.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇంటికన్నా గుడి పదిలము”
— English Translation:
The temple is stronger than the house.Said by a ruined man who had been obliged to take refuge in a temple, but pretended that he had gone there for the safety of his property.Make a virtue of necessity.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఆవు చేనిలో మేస్తే, దూడ గట్టున మేసునా”
— English Translation:
If the cow grazes in the field, will the calf graze on the bank ?Intimate friends, or near relatives, will follow in the same path.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇంటికి జ్యేష్ఠాదేవి, పొరుగుకు లక్ష్మీదేవి”
— English Translation:
The goddess of misfortune at home, the goddess of fortune abroad.Bad to his own, but good to others.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఆవు పాడి యెన్నాళ్లు ఐశ్వర్యం యెన్నాళ్లు, బర్రె పాడి యెన్నాళ్లు భాగ్యం యెన్నాళ్లు",”
— ,"English Translation:
How long will you have the cow's milk, and how long will you have your fortune’! How long will your buii'aloe’s milk last, and how long will your riches endure ?Said to a man proud of his good fortune.Riches have wings.