Pagase el rey de la traicion, mas no de quien la hace.The king likes the treachery, but not the traitor.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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No hay peor sordo que el que no quiere oir.None so deaf as he that won’t hear
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMarido, no veas: muger, ciega seas.Husband, don’t see; wife, be blind.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCon mal está la casa donde la rueca manda al espada.It fares ill with the house where the spinning-wheel commands the sword.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe hombre que no habla, y de can que no ladra, libera nos.From a silent man, and a dog that does not bark, deliver us.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe tu muger y de tu amigo esperto, no creas sino lo que supieres cierto.Of your wife and your tried friend believe nothing but what you know for certain.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCasarás y amansarás.Marry and grow tame.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuando Dios quiere en sereno llueve.When God pleases, it rains in fair weather.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuando ayunque, sufre, quando mazo, tunde.When you are an anvil, bear; when you are a hammer, strike.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesJusta razon engañar el engañador.It is fair and just to cheat the cheater.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo piden todos para un santo.All do not beg for one saint.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien ha de llevar el gato al agua?Who is to carry the cat to the water?
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa costumbre es otra naturaleza.Custom is second nature.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA mal ñudo mal cuño.To a hard knot a hard wedge.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor el hilo se saca el ovillo.By the thread we unwind the skein.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien bien bayla, de boda en boda se anda.He who dances well goes from wedding to wedding.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDo falta dicha, por demas es diligencia.Where luck is wanting, diligence is useless.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesRuegos porque cante, y ruegos porque calle.Entreaties to get him to sing, and entreaties to leave off.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBarro y cal encubran mucho mal.Clay and lime conceal much evil.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCaldo de tripas, bien te repicas.Tripe broth, you make much of yourself.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEn el rio do no hay pezes por demas es echar redes.It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDonde huego se hace, humo sale.Where there’s fire there’s smoke.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesComo canta el abad, responde el sacristan.As the abbot sings the sacristan responds.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPrenda que come, ninguno la tome.Let no one take a pawn that eats.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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