Buen corazon quebranta mala ventura.A good heart breaks bad fortune.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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A puerta cerrada, el diablo se vuelve.When the devil finds the door shut, he goes away.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesArmas y dineros buenas manos quieren.Arms and money require good hands.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl yerno y al cochino, una vez el camino.To a son-in-law and a hog you need show the way but once.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl que no tiene muger, cada dia la mata; mas quien la tiene, bien se la guarda.He who has no wife, is for thrashing her daily; but he that has one, takes care of her.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl buen pagador señor es de lo ageno.A good paymaster is keeper of others’ purses.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNunca pidas á quien tiene, sino á quien sabes que te quiere.Never ask of him who has, but of him you know wishes you well.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDar en el clavo.To hit the nail on the head.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe herrero á herrero no pasa dinero.Between Smith and Smith no money passes.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl mentir no tiene alcabala.There is no tax upon lying.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien con ropa agena se viste, en la calle se queda en cuerpo.Who arrays himself in other men’s garments is stripped on the highway.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCosa mala nunca muere.A bad thing never dies.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl enhornar se tuerce el pan.It is in putting it into the oven that the loaf is made crooked.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA quien vela, todo se le revela.To him that watches, everything is revealed.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien te hace fiesta que no te suele hacer, ó te quiere engañar, ó te ha menester.He that is more civil than usual, either wants to cozen you or has need of you.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTripa llena, ni bien huye ni bien pelea.A full belly is neither good for flight, nor for fighting.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl amor verdadero no sufre cosa encubierta.True love suffers no concealment.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA madrina, que eso yo me lo sabia.Hush, brideswoman, I knew all that before.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA cabo de cien años todos seremos calvos.A hundred years hence we shall all be bald.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl deseo hace hermoso lo feo.Desire beautifies what is ugly.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien ó A quien Dios no le dió hijos, el diablo le dió sobrinos.He to whom God gives no sons, the devil gives nephews.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAres, no ares, renta me pagues.Plough or not plough, you must pay your rent.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEsa es buena que está al fuego y no se quema.She is good who is close to the fire and does not burn.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl que es enemigo de la novia, como dirá bien de la boda?How shall the enemy of the bride speak well of the wedding?
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources