# Telugu proverbs

Proverbs from all Telugu speaking parts of the world.
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## Quotes in Telugu
### A

* అనువుగాని చోట నధికుల మనరాదు
** Transcription: Anuvugāni chōṭa nadhikula manarādu
** In an unsuitable place we should not assert our superiority
** Nearest English equivalent: There's a time and place for everything.
** M. W. Carr (1868). A Collection of Telugu Proverbs translated, illustrated and explained; together with some Sanscrit Proverbs printed in the Devanâgarî and Telugu Characters: By M. W. Carr. A Supplement to the Collection of Telugu Proverbs: containing additional Proverbs, an Index verborum, and an index to the European Proverbs quoted in illustration. Christian Knowledge Society's Press. p. 8.
* అంత్య నిష్టురముకన్నా ఆది నిష్టురమే మేలు
** Transcription: Antya niṣṭuramukannā ādi niṣṭuramē mēlu
** Annoyance at the beginning is better than annoyance at the end
** M. W. Carr (1868). A Collection of Telugu Proverbs translated, illustrated and explained; together with some Sanscrit Proverbs printed in the Devanâgarî and Telugu Characters: By M. W. Carr. A Supplement to the Collection of Telugu Proverbs: containing additional Proverbs, an Index verborum, and an index to the European Proverbs quoted in illustration. Christian Knowledge Society's Press. p. 3.
* అంధునకు అద్దము చూపినట్టు
** Transcription: Andhunaku addamu cūpinaṭṭu
** Like giving a blind man a looking glass.
** M. W. Carr (1868). A Collection of Telugu Proverbs translated, illustrated and explained; together with some Sanscrit Proverbs printed in the Devanâgarî and Telugu Characters: By M. W. Carr. A Supplement to the Collection of Telugu Proverbs: containing additional Proverbs, an Index verborum, and an index to the European Proverbs quoted in illustration. Christian Knowledge Society's Press. p. 4.
* అంబలి తాగేవారికి మీసాలు ఎగబట్టేవారు కొందరా
** Transcription: Ambali tāgēvāriki mīsālu egabaṭṭēvāru kondarā
** Do people that live on porridge keep men to hold up their mustaches ?
** M. W. Carr (1868). A Collection of Telugu Proverbs translated, illustrated and explained; together with some Sanscrit Proverbs printed in the Devanâgarî and Telugu Characters: By M. W. Carr. A Supplement to the Collection of Telugu Proverbs: containing additional Proverbs, an Index verborum, and an index to the European Proverbs quoted in illustration. Christian Knowledge Society's Press. p. 4.

### D

* డబ్బులేని వానికి బోగముది తల్లి వరస.
** Transcription: ḍabbulēni vāniki bhōgamudi talli varasa.
** A harlot is as a mother to a man without money.
** English equivalent: Something beyond the reach of a man’s means.
** M. W. Carr (1868). A Collection of Telugu Proverbs translated, illustrated and explained; together with some Sanscrit Proverbs printed in the Devanâgarî and Telugu Characters: By M. W. Carr. A Supplement to the Collection of Telugu Proverbs: containing additional Proverbs, an Index verborum, and an index to the European Proverbs quoted in illustration. Christian Knowledge Society's Press. p. 173.

### G

* గుడ్డివాడెరుగునా కుందనపు చాయ.
** Transcription: guḍḍivāḍerugunā kundanapu cāya
** Can a blind man discern the color of pure gold?
** English equivalent: A blind man should not judge of colours.
** "An uneducated man cannot judge of the attainments of the learned."
** M. W. Carr (1868). A Collection of Telugu Proverbs translated, illustrated and explained; together with some Sanscrit Proverbs printed in the Devanâgarî and Telugu Characters: By M. W. Carr. A Supplement to the Collection of Telugu Proverbs: containing additional Proverbs, an Index verborum, and an index to the European Proverbs quoted in illustration. Christian Knowledge Society's Press. p. 141.

### K

* కొండ నాలుక కు మందు వేస్తే, ఉన్న నాలుక ఊడిందంట
** Transcription: Konda naaluka ku mandhu vesthe, unna naaluka oodindhanta.
** When he applied medicine to the uvula, it took out the whole tongue.
** English equivalent: The remedy is often worse than the disease.
** Carr (1868). A Collection of Telugu Proverbs translated, illustrated and explained. Christian Knowledge Society's Press.

### N

* నక్క యెక్కడ, దేవలోకమెక్కడ.
** Transcription: nakka yekkaḍa, dēvalōkamekkaḍa.
** Where is the jackal? where is heaven?
** English equivalent: What prospect has the jackal of entering heaven?
** "A hopeless idea."
** M. W. Carr (1868). A Collection of Telugu Proverbs translated, illustrated and explained; together with some Sanscrit Proverbs printed in the Devanâgarî and Telugu Characters: By M. W. Carr. A Supplement to the Collection of Telugu Proverbs: containing additional Proverbs, an Index verborum, and an index to the European Proverbs quoted in illustration. Christian Knowledge Society's Press. p. 216.

### R

* రేపు అనే రోజు వున్నదా.
** Transcription: rēpu anē rōju vunnadā
** Is there a day called tomorrow?
** English equivalent: Tomorrow comes never.
** "There’s no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams."
** Aung San Suu Kyi, Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Acceptance Speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, Strasbourg, 22 October 2013
** M. W. Carr (1868). A Collection of Telugu Proverbs translated, illustrated and explained; together with some Sanscrit Proverbs printed in the Devanâgarî and Telugu Characters: By M. W. Carr. A Supplement to the Collection of Telugu Proverbs: containing additional Proverbs, an Index verborum, and an index to the European Proverbs quoted in illustration. Christian Knowledge Society's Press. p. 325.
* He is no friend that eats his own by himself and mine with me.
** "Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
** Richard Bach, Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
** Carr, M. W. (1868). "H". A Collection of Telugu Proverbs. Printed and sold at the Christian knowledge society's Press. p. 140.
* టతానననక ఆాజxత
** (Every man) thnks the world like himself.
** English equivalentː Don't measure others by your own yardstick.
** Carr, Mark William (1868). "60". A Collection of Telugu Proverbs: Translated, Illustrated, and Explained Together with Some Sanskrit Proverbs Printed in the Devanagari and Telugu Characters. p. 383. ISBN 978-81-206-0261-8.