Hay buena cuenta, y no paresca blanca.The account is correct, but not a sixpence appears
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Si quieres enfermar, lavate la cabeza y vete á echar.If you want to be dead, wash your head and go to bed.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl envidioso afilásele el gesto y crécele el ojo.The envious man’s face grows sharp and his eyes big.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAma, soys ama mientras el niño mama, y despues no nada.Nurse, you are mistress whilst the child sucks, and after that nothing.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa espada y la sortija, en cuya mano estan.The sword and the ring according to the hand that bears them.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNi buen frayle por amigo, ni malo por enemigo.Neither a good friar for friend, nor a bad one for enemy.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa boca y la bolsa, cerrada.The mouth and the purse, shut.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDerecho apurado, tuerto tornado.Right overstrained turns to wrong.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSabedlo, coles, que espinacas hay en la olla.Know, cabbages, that there is spinach in the stew.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien presta, no cobra; y si cobra, no todo; y si todo, no tal; y si tal, enemigo mortal.Who lends recovers not; or if he recovers, recovers not all; or if all, not such; or if such, a mortal enemy.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCuñados, y perros bermejos pocos buenos.Of brothers-in-law and red dogs few are good.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQual el dueño tal el perro.As is the master, so is his dog.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesUna mano lava la otra, y ambas la cara.One hand washes the other, and both the face.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa quinta rueda al carro no hace sino embaraçar.A fifth wheel to a cart is but an encumbrance.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa muger y la salsa á la man de la lança.Your wife and the sauce at the lance hand (the right hand).
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDios os libre de hidalgo de dia, y de fraile de noche.God deliver us from a gentleman by day and a friar by night.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBien ó mal, casado me han.For letter for worse they have married me.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl que no duda, no sabe cosa alguna.He who doubts nothing knows nothing.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHaz lo que dice el fraile, y no lo que hace.Do what the friar says, and not what he does
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAya cebo en el palomar, que palomas ellas se vernán.Let there be food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien la fama ha perdido, muerto anda en la vida.He who has lost his reputation is a dead man among the living.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAdonde yrá el buey, que no are?Whither shall the ox go where he will not have to plough?
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSaberlo como su Paternoster.He knows it as well as his Lord’s Prayer.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor la calle de despues se va á la casa de nunca.By the street of “By-and-by” one arrives at the house of “Never.”
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources