La primera muger escoba, y la segunda señora.The first wife is a broom, and the second a lady.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Quien promete, en deuda se mete.He who promises incurs a debt.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesXabonar cabeza de asno, perdimiento de xabon.To lather an ass’s head is only wasting soap.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesGran sabor es comer y no escotar.It is very savoury to eat scot free.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl que á su enemigo popa, á sus manos muere.He who trifles with his enemy dies by his hand.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMeter aguja, y sacar reja.To put in a needle and take out a bar.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien á su muger no honra, á si mismo deshonra.He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCantarillo que muchas veces va á la fuente, ó deja el asa ó la frente.The pitcher that goes often to the well leaves either its handle or its spout.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl mal que de tu boca sale, en tu seno se cae.The evil which issues from thy mouth falls into thy bosom.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien da lo suyo ántes de su muerte, que le den con un mazo en la frente.Who gives what he has before he is dead, take a mallet and knock that fool on the head.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLo que la muger quiere, Dios lo quiere.What a woman wills, God wills.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDa Dios almendras á quien no tiene muelas.God gives almonds to one who has no teeth.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo da quien quiere, sino quien tiene.Not he gives who likes, but who has.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesReniego de cuentas, con deudos y deudas.Curses on accounts with relations.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor soto no vayas tras otro.In a wood don’t walk behind another.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAndando gana la hazeña, que no estándose queda.The mill gains by going, and not by standing still.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo se pierde todo lo que está en peligro.All is not lost that is in danger.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEn casa del moro no hables algarabía.Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo hay pariente pobre.No relation is poor
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA pobreza no hay vergüenza.Poverty is no sin.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA moro muerto gran lanzada.A great lance-thrust to a dead Moor.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl perro del hortelano ni come las berzas, ni las deja comer al estraño.The gardener’s dog neither eats greens nor lets any one else eat them.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo habria palabra mala, si no fuese mal tomada.There would be no ill word if it were not ill taken.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA su amigo el gato siempre le deja señalado.The cat always leaves her mark upon her friend.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources