1263 sayings with source references.
Al mozo mal mandado, ponle la mesa, y embiale al recado.If you have a loitering servant, set his dinner before him and send him on an errand.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAlgo va de Pedro á Pedro.There is some distance between Peter and Peter.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien dice lo suyo, mal callará lo ageno.He who tells his own secret will hardly keep another’s.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien hace un cesto, hará ciento.He that makes one basket can make a hundred.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien no tiene mas de un sayo no puede prestarlo.He who has but one coat cannot lend it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTener á alguno en ascuas.To keep one upon hot coals.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPeso y medida quitan al hombre fatiga.Weight and measure save a man toil.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe haré, haré, nunca me pagué; mas vale un toma que dos te daré.I never was satisfied with “I will, I will.” One “take this” is better than two “I will give you.”
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMas ablanda el dinero que palabras de caballero.Money soothes more than a gentleman’s words.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuebrarse un ojo para sacar à otro los dos.To lose one eye that you may deprive another of two.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBuena vida arrugas tira.A good life defers wrinkles.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl rey va hasta do puede, y no hasta do quiere.The king goes as far as he can, not so far as he would.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMejor es dobrar que quebrar.Better to bend than break.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEntienda primero, y habla postrero.Hear first, and speak afterwards.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLo que no quieres para ti, no lo quieras para mi.What you dislike for yourself do not like for me.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien bien te hará, ó se te muere, ó se te va.He who does good to you either dies or goes away.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo digo quien eres, que tu te lo dirás.I do not tell thee what thou art, thou wilt tell it thyself.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesGuayas! padre, que otra hija os nasce.Alas! father, another daughter is born to you.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor viejo que sea el barco, pasa una vez el vado.Old as is the boat it may cross the ferry once.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTragarse un camello, y no poder pasar un mosquito.To swallow a camel, and strain at a gnat.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl melon y la muger malos son de conocer.A melon and a woman are hard to know.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa vaca harta de la cola haz brigata.The full-fed cow makes company of her tail.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl que cueze y amasa no le hurtar hogaça.Do not steal a loaf from him that kneads and bakes.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesOvejas bobas, por do va una, van todas.Silly sheep, where one goes, all go.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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