1263 sayings with source references.
Deudas tienes, y haces mas; si no mentiste, mentiras.You have debts, and make debts still; if you’ve not lied, lie you will.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo falte cibo al palomar, que las palomas ellas se vernán.Let there be no lack of food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAndeme yo caliente, y riase la gente.Let me go warm, and folks may laugh.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor ser rey, se quiebra toda ley.Every law is broken to become a king.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPollino que me lleve, y no caballo que me arrastre.Give me the ass that carries me in preference to the horse that throws me.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl dar es honor, y el pedir dolor.To give is honour, to lose is grief.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien tiene arte, va por toda parte.He who has a trade may travel through the world.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLo barato es caro.Bargains are dear.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLo que se usa, no se escusa.What is in use, wants no excuse.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesRaposa que mucho tarda, caça aguarda.The fox that tarries long is on the watch for prey.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCan que madre tiene en villa, nunca buena ladrilla.The dog that has its bitch in town never barks well.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl estiercol no es santo, mas do cae hace milagro.Dung is no saint, but where it falls it works miracles.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSaca lo tuyo al mercado, y uno te dirá prieto y otro blanco.Tell your affairs in the market-place, and one will call them black and another white.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBien sabe el huego cuya capa quema.The fire well knows whose cloak burns.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLo perdido vaya por amor de Dios.Let what is lost go for God’s sake.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl cuerdo no ata el saber á estaca.The wise man does not hang his knowledge on a hook.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEn tiempo helado el clavo vale un caballo.In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesGalgo que muchas liebras levanta, ninguna mata.The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA quien no mata puerco, no le dan morcilla.They who don’t kill pigs must not expect black-puddings.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA celada de bellacos, mejor es el hombre por los pies que por los manos.At an ambuscade of villains a man does better with his feet than his hands.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien su carro unta, sus bueyes ayuda.He who greases his cart-wheels helps his oxen.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA hija casada salen nos yernos.When our daughter is married sons-in-law are plenty.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCobra buena fama, y échate á dormir.Get a good name, and go to sleep.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMas vale que sobre, que no que falte.Better there should be too much than too little.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources