El porfiado albardan comerá de tu pan.The busy fly is in every man’s dish.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Aquel pierde venta que no tiene que venda.He loses his market who has nothing to sell.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAsna con pollino no va derecha al molino.An ass with her colt goes not straight to the mill.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo es de vero lágrimas en la muger, ni coxuear en el perro.A woman’s tears and a dog’s limping are not real.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesRaton que no sabe mas de un horado, presto le toma el gato.The rat that knows but one hole is soon caught by the cat.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHabla de la caza, y cómprala en la plaza.Talk of sporting, and buy game in the market.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor donde menos se piensa salta la liebre.The hare starts from where it is least expected.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEn casa del herrero cuchillo de palo.In a smith’s house the knife is wooden.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDel alcalde al verdugo, ved como subo.See how he has risen from a mayor to a hangman.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSo mi manto al rey mando.Under my cloak I command the king.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl cordero manso mama á su madre, y á qualquiera; el bravo ni á la suya, ni á la agena.The gentle lamb sucks any ewe as well as its mother; the surly lamb sucks neither its own nor another.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl viejo por no poder, y el mozo por no saber, dejan las cosas perder.The old for want of ability, and the young for want of knowledge, let things be lost.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAunque manso tu sabueso, no le muerdas en el bezo.Though your bloodhound be gentle, don’t bite him on the lip.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien a mano agena espera, mal yanta y peor cena.He who lives in hopes, breakfasts ill and sups worse.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEn el almoneda tien la boca queda.At an auction keep your mouth shut.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien a veinte no es galan, ni á treinta tiene fuerza, ni á quarenta riqueza, ni á cincuenta esperiencia, ni será galan, ni fuerte, ni rico, ni prudente.He that is not gallant at twenty, strong at thirty, rich at forty, or experienced at fifty, will never be gallant, strong, rich, or prudent.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCuidados agenos matan el asno.Other folks’ cares kill the ass.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDesaprovechado como unto de mona.As useless as monkey’s fat.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSo el sayal, hay al.Under the sackcloth there is something hid.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien sirve al commun, sirve á ningun.He who helps everybody, helps nobody.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPasa la fiesta, y el loco resta.The feast passes and the fool remains.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl perro del hortelano, ni hambriento ni harto.The gardener’s dog, neither full nor hungry.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor el alabado dejé el conocido, y vi me arrepentido.I left what I knew for what I heard praised, and repented.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesOro es lo que oro vale.That is gold which is worth gold.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources