El lobo do mane daño no hace.The wolf commits no mischief at home.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Ni hermosa que mate, ni fea que espante.Neither handsome enough to kill, nor ugly enough to frighten.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDo entra beber, sale saber.When drink enters, wisdom departs.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl vino anda sin calças.Wine wears no breeches.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien bien quiere, bien obedece.He who loves well, obeys well.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl dia que no escobé entró quien, no piense.The day I did not sweep the house, there came to it one I did not expect.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe noche los gatos todos son pardos.At night all cats are grey.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAsno con oro alcánzalo todo.The golden ass passes everywhere.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien padre tiene alcalde, seguro va á juicio.He goes safely to trial whose father is a judge.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl buey que me acornó, en buen lugar me echó.The ox that butted me tossed me into a good place.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCon todo el mondo guerra, y paz con Inglaterra.War with all the world, and peace with England.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAmistad de yerno, sol de invierno.A son-in-law’s friendship is a winter’s sun.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA clérigo hecho de fraile, no le fies tu comadre.Trust not your gossip to a priest who has been a friar.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEn el mejor paño cae la raza.The best cloth has uneven threads.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSobre brevas vino bebas.Drink wine upon figs.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDel mal el menor.Of evils, the least.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuando vieras tu casa quemar, llegate á escalentar.When thou seest thy house in flames, go warm thyself by it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl hacer temblar, y al comer sudar.To shiver at work, and sweat at meals.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLo que con los ojos veo, con el dedo lo adevino.What I see with my eyes I can guess with my fingers.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLo que mucho se desea, no se cree aunque se vea.What is much desired is not believed when it comes.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl infierno está lleno de buenas palabras.Hell is full of good intentions.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCastiga al que no es bueno, y aborrecerte ha luego.Chastise one that is worthless, and he will presently hate you.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLo mio mio, lo de Juan mi hermano, suyo y mio.What is mine is my own; my brother Juan’s is his and mine.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo se hizo la miel por la boca del asno.Honey was not made for the mouth of the ass.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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