1263 sayings with source references.
Dicen los niños en el solejar lo que oyen á sus padres en el hogar.What children hear their parents say by the fireside they repeat in the highway.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDonde fuiste paje, no seas escudero.Be not an esquire where you were a page.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien bien siembra, bien coge.He who sows well, reaps well.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo hay ladron sin encubridor.If there were no receiver there would be no thief
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl huego y el amor no dicen: Vate á tu lavor.Fire and love do not say “Go to your work.”
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAmigo de pleitos, poco dinero; amigo de médicos, poca salud; amigo de frailes, poca honra.Fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors, little health; fond of friars, little honour.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTanto es Pedro de Dios, que no le medra Dios.Peter is so godly that God does not improve his condition.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSi la piedra da en el cántaro, mal para el cántaro; y si el cántaro da en la piedra, mal para el cántaro.If the pitcher knocks against a stone, woe to the pitcher; and if the stone knocks against the pitcher, woe to the pitcher.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSi da el cántaro en la piedra, ó la piedra en el cántaro, mal para el cántaro.Whether the pitcher strike the stone, or the stone the pitcher, woe be to the pitcher.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMas son los amenazados que los heridos.There are more threatened than hurt.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl que yerra, perdónale una vez, mas no despues.Him who errs, forgive once, but never twice.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien compra y vende lo que gasta no siente.He who buys and sells does not feel what he spends.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesGrano á grano hinche la gallina el papo.Grain by grain the hen fills her crop.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl fin se canta la Gloria.At the end the Gloria is chanted.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe puerta cerrada el diablo se torna.The devil turns away from a closed door.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl ojo del amo engorda el caballo.The eye of the master fattens the steed.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEn casa del ahorcado no se ha de mentar la soga.Never speak of a rope in the house of a man who was hanged.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAlgun dia mande tanto Pedro como su amo.Some day Peter will command as much as his master.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBueno, bueno, bueno, mas guarde Dios mi burra de su centeno.Good, good, good, but God keep my ass out of his rye.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa justicia de Peralvillo que ahorcado el hombre le hace la pes quisa.Peralvillo justice: hang a man first and try him afterwards.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPiés que son duchos de andar, no pueden quedos estar.Feet that are used to move cannot remain quiet.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDos amigos de una bolsa, el uno canta, el otro llora.When there are two friends to one purse, one sings, the other weeps.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEchate á enfermar, verás quien te quiere bien, y quien te quiere mal.Fall sick, and you will see who is your friend and who not.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo hay olla tan fea que no halle su cobertera.There is no pot so ugly but finds its cover
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources