1263 sayings with source references.
Quien dineros y pan tiene, consuegra con quien quiere.He who has both money and bread, may choose with whom his daughter to wed.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCrea el cuervo, y sacarte ha los ojos.Foster a raven and it will peck out your eyes.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNace en la huerta lo que no siembra el hortelano.In the garden more grows, than the gardener sows.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMadre, casar, casar, que carrafico me quiere llevar.Mother, marry me, marry me, or the gull will fly away with me.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA puerta de cazador nunca gran muladar.There is never a great dunghill at a sportsman’s door.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA la luna el lobo al asno espulga.The wolf picks the ass’s fleas by moonlight.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSease velado, y sease un palo.Let it be a husband, though it be but a log.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAmar y saber, no puede ser.To love and be wise is impossible.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDísela tú una vez, que el diablo se la dirá diez.Tell it her once, and the devil will tell it her ten times.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDinero llama dinero.Money gets money.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPapel y tinta, y poca justicia.Paper and ink and little justice.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEntre dos muelas molares nunca metas tus pulgares.Never put your thumbs between two grinders.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien bien quiere, de léjos ve.A well-wisher sees from afar.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor oir misa, y dar cebada, nunca se perdió jornada.Nothing is lost on a journey by stopping to pray or to feed your horse.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBarba bien remojada, medio rapada.A beard well lathered is half shaved.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe lo contado come el lobo.The wolf eats of what is counted.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl perro flaco, todo es pulgas.The lean dog is all fleas.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.When ill-luck sleeps, let no one wake her.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesViento y ventura poco dura.Wind and good luck are seldom lasting.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPoco á poco se va léjos.Little by little one goes far.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa mula y la muger por balagos hacen el mandado.A mule and a woman do what is expected of them.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMostrar primero la horca que el lugar.To parade the gallows before the town.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTras el vicio viene el fornicio.After one vice a greater follows.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBurlas de manos, burlas de villanos.Manual jokes are clowns’ jokes.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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