1263 sayings with source references.
El can de buena raza, si hoy no caza, mañana caza.The well-bred hound, if he does not hunt to-day will hunt to-morrow.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCosa que no se venda, nadie la siembra.Nobody sows a thing that will not sell.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCayósele el pan en la miel.His bread fell into the honey.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAbad de Carçuela, comistes la olla, pedis la caçuela.Abbot of Carçuela, you eat up the pot and ask for the pipkin.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTonto, sin saber latin, nunca es gran tonto.A fool, unless he know Latin, is never a great fool.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor mucho que corra la liebre, mas corre el galgo, pues la prende.Fast as the hare runs, the greyhound outruns her, since he catches her.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien mala cama hace, en ella se yace.As you make your bed so you must lie in it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSeñal mortal no quierer sanar.Not to wish to recover is a mortal symptom.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBien sabe la vulpeja con quien trebeja.The fox knows well with whom he plays tricks.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAntes toman al mentiroso que al cojo.The liar is sooner caught than the cripple.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPierde el mes lo suyo, pero no el año.The month loses its own, but not the year.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSi quieres ver quanto vale un ducado, búscalo prestado.If you want to know what a ducat is worth, try to borrow one.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAcuestate sin cena, y amanecerás sin deuda.Go to bed supperless and you will wake without debt.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl que dá el capon, dale la pierna y el alon.To him who gives you a capon you may spare a leg and a wing.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe piel agena larga la correa.Of other men’s leather large thongs.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCien sastres, cien molineros, y cien texederos son trecientos ladrones.A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers, are three hundred thieves.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTriste es la casa, donde la gallina canta, y el gallo calla.It goes ill in the house where the hen sings and the cock is silent.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien hace por comun, hace por ningun.He who gives to the public, gives to no one.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDadiva de ruin á su dueño parece.A bad man’s gift is like his master.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl que tarda, recauda.He who delays, gathers.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMas vale puñado de natural que almozada de ciencia.A handful of motherwit is worth a bushel of learning.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAsí acontescen cosas récias, como ir á la plaza y venir sin orejas.Such awkward things will happen as going into the great square and coming back without ears.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMataras y matarte han, y mataran á quien te matare.Kill and thou wilt be killed, and he will be killed who kills thee.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo hay tal razon como la del baston.There’s no argument like that of the stick
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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