Si se perdieron los anillos, aquí quedáron los dedillos.If the rings are lost, here are the fingers still.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Sobre un huevo pone la gallina.The hen lays upon an egg.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCornudo sois, marido: muger, y quien te lo dijo?Husband, you are a cuckold: wife, who told you so?
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCabra coja no quiere siesta.A lame goat will not sleep by day.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAntes de mil años todos seremos calvos.In less than a thousand years we shall all be bald.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPrimero son mis dientes que mis parientes.My teeth before my relations.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMuchos besan manos que quierian ver cortadas.Many kiss hands they would fain see chopped off.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuando fueres á casa, agena llama defuera.When you go to a strange house knock at the door.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAllá van leyes, do quieren reyes.Laws go the way kings direct.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDetras de la cruz está el diablo.The devil lurks behind the cross.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBuscais pan de trastrigo.You want better bread than wheaten.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNi con cada mal al fisico, ni con cada pleito al letrado, ni con cada sed al jarro.Go not with every ailment to the doctor, with every plea to the lawyer, or with every thirst to the can.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl puerco gordo, untarle el rabo.To grease the fat pig’s tail.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNecio es, quien piensa que otro no piensa.He is a fool who thinks that another does not think.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAsno de muchos, lobos le comen.The ass of many owners is food for wolves.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA tu criado no le hartes de pan, no pedirá queso.Do not stuff your servant with bread, and he won’t ask for cheese.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDel agua mansa me libre Dios, que de la recia me guardaré yo.From smooth water God preserve me, from rough I will preserve myself.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA las burlas así ve á ellas que no se salgan de veras.Jest so that it may not turn to earnest.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA palabras locas orejas sordas.To mad words deaf ears.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNo se hacen las bodas de hongos á solas.The wedding feast is not made with mushrooms only.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNo hay mejor bocado que el hurtado.There is no choicer morsel than that which is stolen
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA la longa el galgo á la liebre mata.In the long run the greyhound kills the hare.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAdonde vas, mal? Adonde mas hay.Whither goest thou, misfortune? To where there is more.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesArco siempre armado, ó flojo ó quebrado.The bow that is always bent slackens or breaks.
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