Quien tiene una hora de espacio, no muere ahorcado.He that has an hour’s start will not be hanged.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Quien malas hadas no halla, de las buenas se enhada.He that has no ill luck grows weary of good luck.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA salvo está el que repica.He is in safety who rings the tocsin.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTener el seso en los calcañares.To have one’s brains in one’s heels.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAgua passada no muele molino.Water past will not turn the mill.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAmor de niño, agua en cesto.A boy’s love is water in a sieve.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMejor me parece tu jarro mellado que el mio sano.Your cracked jug seems better to me than my sound one.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor falta de hombres buenos, á mi padre hicieron alcalde.For the want of worthy men they made my father alcade.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl toro y al aire, darles calle.Don’t stop the way of a bull or of a current of air.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAquella es bien casada, que no tiene suegra ni cuñada.She is well married who has neither mother-in-law nor sister-in-law.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSiéntate en tu lugar, no te harán levantar.Seat yourself in your place and you will not be made to quit it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesUna cautela con otra se quiebra.One knavery is met by another.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesIra de hermanos, ira de diablos.The wrath of brothers is the wrath of devils.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl abad de Bamba, lo que no puede comer, dalo por su alma.What the abbot of Bamba cannot eat he gives away for the good of his soul.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien no te conoce te compre.Let him who does not know you buy you.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien estropieza y no cae, en su paso añade.He who stumbles and does not fall mends his pace.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSacar un fuego con otro fuego.To quench fire with fire.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor no gastar lo que basta, lo que era excusado se gasta.Through not spending enough, we spend too much.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAnte la puerta del rezador, nunca eches tu trigo al sol.Never spread your corn to dry before the door of a saintly man.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMas vale que digan, Aqui huyó, que Aqui murió.Better they should say, “There he ran away,” than “There he died.”
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo hace poco quien su casa quema: espanta los ratones, y escalientase á la leña.He does not a little who burns his house: he frightens the rats, and warms himself.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBendita aquella casa que no tiene corona rapada.Happy the home in which there is no shaven crown.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo es en mano del piloto que dexe el viento su soplo.It is not in the pilot’s power to prevent the wind from blowing.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTodos son buenos, y mi capa no parece.They are all honest men, but my cloak is not to be found.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources