Quien el aceyte mesura, las manos se unta.He who measures oil greases his hands.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Buey viejo, sulco derecho.An old ox makes a straight furrow.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl hombre bueno, no le busques abolengo.Ask not after a good man’s pedigree.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPlanta muchas veces traspuesta ni crece ni tredra.A tree often transplanted neither grows nor thrives.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesVallestero que mal tira, presto tiene la mentira.The archer that shoots badly has a lie ready.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHabla poco y bien, tenerte han por alquien.Talk little and well, and you will be looked upon as somebody.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPor do salta la cabra, salta la que la mama.Where the goat leaps, leaps that which sucks her.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDespues que la casa está hecha, la deja.After the house is finished, he deserts it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTener la barriga á la boca.To have the belly up to one’s mouth.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDel mal que hombre teme, de ese muere.Of the malady a man fears, he dies.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien adelante no mira, atras se queda.He who does not look before lags behind.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDespues del daño cada uno es sabio.Every one is wise when the mischief is done.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBofeton amagado, nunca bien dado.A buffeting threatened is never well given.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa muger compuesta á su marido quita de puerta agena.The well-dressed woman draws her husband away from another woman’s door.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMuger, no te las cuento, mas doze morcillas hace un puerco.I don’t count them to you, wife, but a hog makes twelve puddings.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesVer el cielo por un embudo.To see the sky through a funnel.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesRuego y derecho hacen el hecho.Entreaty and right do the deed.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLas sopas y los amores, los primieros son mejores.Of soups and loves the first are the best.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEn casa de muger rica, ella manda siempre, y él nunca.In the rich woman’s house she always commands; he never.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPara el mal que hoy se acaba no es remedio el de mañana.To-morrow’s remedy will not ward off the evil of today.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAve muda no hace agüero.A mute bird makes no omen.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl dia que no me afeyté, vino á mi casa quien no pensé.The day I did not make my toilette, there came to my house one I did not expect.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMuda el lobo los dientes y no los mientes.The wolf changes his teeth but not his disposition.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien mucho duerme, poco aprende.He who sleeps much, learns little.
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