Perro alcucero nunca buen conejero.A kitchen-dog is never a good rabbit-hunter.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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De cuero ageno correas largas.Large thongs of another man’s leather.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAdó pensas que hay tocinos, no hay estacas.Where you think there is bacon, there are not even hooks for it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPuridad de dos, puridad de Dios; puridad de tres, de todos es.A secret between two is God’s secret, a secret between three is everybody’s.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien madre tiene en villa, siete veces se amortaza cada dia.The servant wench that has a mother in town swoons seven times a day.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl puerco sarnoso revuelve la pocilga.A measly hog infects the whole sty.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEn casa del gaitero todos son danzantes.In the bagpiper’s house they are all dancers.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien poco sabe, presto lo reza.He who knows little soon tells it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTantas veces va el cántaro á la fuente, que dexa el asa ó la frente.The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it leaves its handle or its mouth.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien te da el capon, dale la pierna y el alon.To him who gives the capon you may spare a leg and wing.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl pan comido, la compañía deshecha.The bread eaten, the company departed.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTras los dias viene el seso.Sense comes with age.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien en un año quiere ser rico, al medio le ahorcan.He who wants to be rich in a year comes to the gallows in half a year.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa verdad, como el olio, siempre anda en somo.Truth, like oil, always comes to the surface.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo hay cerradura, si es de oro la ganzua.There is no lock, if the pick is of gold
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDos aves de rapiña no mantienen compaña.Two birds of prey do not keep each other company.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa piedra es dura, y la gota menuda, mas cayendo de continuo, hace cavadura.The stone is hard and the drop is small, but a hole is made by the constant fall.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor donde fueres, haz como vieres.Wherever you may be, do as you see done.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien guarda su poridad escusa mucho mal.He who keeps his own secret avoids much mischief.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMas vale rodear que no ahogar.Better go about than be drowned.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa muger del ciego para quien se affeyta?For whom does the blind man’s wife adorn herself?
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesFraile que pide por Dios, pide por dos.The friar who begs for God begs for two.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA quien no le basta espada y corazon, no le bastarán corazas y lanzon.For whom sword and courage are not enough, corslet and lance will not be enough.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo hiere Dios con dos manos.God does not smite with both hands
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources