La horca lo suyo lleva.The gallows takes its own.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Coraçon determinado no sufre ser aconsejado.A determined heart will not be counselled.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNunca mucho costó poco.Much never cost little.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCada uno sabe donde le aprieta el zapato.Every one knows where his shoe pinches him.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuando un lobo come á otro, no hay que comer en el soto.When one wolf eats another, there is nothing to eat in the wood.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe ruin paño nunca buen sayo.There’s no making a good cloak of bad cloth.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe luengas vias luengas mentiras.From long journeys long lies.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCada uno es hijo de sus obras.Every man is the son of his own works.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien á treinta no asesa, no comprará dehesa.He who at thirty has no brains, will never purchase an estate.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMas apaga buena palabra que caldera de agua.A good word extinguishes more than a pailful of water.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBarriga caliente, pie dormiente.The paunch warm, the foot sleepy.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLo que saben tres, sabe toda res.What three know, everybody knows.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPoca barba, poca verguenza.Little beard, little modesty.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesViene ventura á quien la procura.Luck comes to those who look after it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMas vale mala avenencia que buena sentencia.A bad compromise is better than a successful suit.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA la burla, dejarla quando mas agrada.Leave the jest at its best.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien bueyes ha perdido, cencerros se le antojan.He who has lost his oxen is always hearing bells.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSacar un pie del lodo, y meter otro.To take one foot out of the mire and put the other into it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLo que la fuerça no puede, ingenio lo vince.What force cannot do ingenuity may.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa moça como es criada, la estopa como es hilada.The girl as she is taught, the flax as it is wrought.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHabló el buey y dijó Mu.The ox spoke and said “Moo.”
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa burla dineros cuesta.Jesting costs money.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMas vale humo de mi casa que fuego de la agena.Better is the smoke of my own house than the fire of another’s.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA olla que hierve, ninguna mosca se atreve.No flies light on a boiling pot.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources