Olla que mucho hierve, sabor pierde.The stew that boils much loses favour.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Quieres hacer del ladron fiel? Fiate de el.If you would make a thief honest, trust him.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSobre gusto no ha disputa.There is no disputing about taste.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHuéspeda hermosa mal para la bolsa.A handsome hostess is bad for the purse
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo creais, marido, lo que veeredes, sino lo que yo os dixeré.Don’t believe what you see, husband, but only what I tell you.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEn quanto fué nuera, nunca tuve buena suegra, y en quanto fuí suegra, nunca tuve buena nuera.As long as I was a daughter-in-law I never had a good mother-in-law, and as long as I was a mother-in-law I never had a good daughter-in-law.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl rayo y el amor, la ropa sana y quemado el corazon.With lightning and with love, the clothes sound, the heart burned.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAsno sea quien á asno vocea.An ass let him be who brays at an ass.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCasa el hijo quando quisieres, y la hija quando pudieres.Marry your son when you will, and your daughter when you can.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesYo dueña y vos doncella, quien barrerá la casa?I mistress and you miss, who is to sweep the house?
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa bestia que mucho anda, nunca falta quien la taña.The beast that goes well is never without some one to try his paces.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl caracol, por quitar de enojos, por los cuernos trocó los ojos.The snail, to be rid of annoyances, bartered its eyes for horns.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesUso hace maestro.Practice makes perfect.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAlábate, cesto, que venderte quiero.Praise yourself, basket, for I want to sell you.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo son palabras para mi tia, que aun de las obras no se fia.Words will not do for my aunt, for she does not put faith even in deeds.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien tiene boca, no diga á otro, Sopla.Let him that has a mouth not say to another, Blow.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSo vayna de oro cuchillo de plomo.Under a gold sheath a leaden knife.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesManos duchas comen truchas.Skilled hands eat trouts.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCada cosa en su tiempo, y nabos en Adviento.Everything in its season, and turnips in Advent.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPotros cayendo, y mozos perdiendo, van asesando.Colts by falling, and lads by losing, grow prudent.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl que fué monacelo, y despues abad, sabe lo que hacen los mozos tras el altar.He who has been first a novice and then an abbot, knows what the boys do behind the altar.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDios me libre de hombre de un libro.God deliver me from a man of one book.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSi lo cena, no lo almuerza.If you eat it up at supper, you cannot have it at breakfast.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl asno muerto, la cebada al rabo.The ass dead, the barley at his tail.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources