De pequeña centella, gran hoguera.A little spark kindles a great fire.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Mientra en mi casa me estoy, rey me soy.In my own house I am a king.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAun no asamos, é ya empringamos.We are not yet roasting, and already we make sops in the pan.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesZurrar á uno la badana.To thrash one’s jacket.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPara cada jueves no hay un par de orejas.There is not a pair of ears for every Jew.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuiéralo Dios, Matea, que este hijo nuestro sea.God grant, dear wife, that this son be ours.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSeco y no de hambre mas recio es que alambre.A man that is lean, not from hunger, is harder than brass.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesJusticia, mas no por mi casa.Justice, but not in my own house.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVender miel al colmenero.To sell honey to the beekeeper.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA los bobos se les aperece la Madre de Dios.The Mother of God appears to fools.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesUna golondrina no hace verano.One swallow does not make a summer.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEl bien suena y el mal vuela.Good news is rumoured and bad news flies.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEl buey sin cencerro piérdese presto.The ox without a bell is soon lost.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien siembra abrojos, no ande descalzo.He who sows brambles must not go barefoot.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa casa quemada, acudir con el agua.To fetch water after the house is burned.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa espina quando nace, la punta lleva delante.The thorn comes into the world point foremost.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA gran salto, gran quebranto.A great leap gives a great shake.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien no castiga culito, no castiga culazo.He who does not whip the child does not mend the youth.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesParto malo, y hija en cabo.A bad labour, and a daughter after all.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa pobreza no quita virtud, ni la riqueza la pone.Poverty does not destroy virtue, nor does wealth bestow it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo serás amado si de tí solo tienes cuidado.You will not be loved if you care for none but yourself.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBuen principio, la mitad es hecho.Well begun is half done.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor las haldas del vicario sube el diablo al campanario.The devil gets into the belfry by the vicar’s skirts.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuando el villano está en el mulo, ni conoce á Dios, ni al mundo.Set a peasant on horseback, and he forgets both God and man.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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