El lobo do halla un cordero, busca otro.Where the wolf gets one lamb it looks for another.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Combida á tu yerno á la gallina, que él llevará la lima.Invite your son-in-law to a fowl, and he will take away the lemon.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSer como unas ortigas.To be like a bunch of nettles.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien mas corre, menos vuela.The more haste the less speed.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl tramposo presto engaña al codicioso.The sharper soon cheats the covetous man.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien da presto, da dos veces.He gives twice who gives in a trice.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa occasion hace el ladron.Opportunity makes the thief.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDebajo de una mala capa hay un buen bebedor.Under a bad cloak there is a good tippler.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDa Dios alas á la hormiga para que se pierda mas aina.God gives wings to the ant that she may perish the sooner.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEn boca cerrada no entra mosca.No fly gets into a shut mouth.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDo va mas hondo el rio, hace menos ruido.Where the river is deepest it makes least noise.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesGloria vana florece, y no grana.Vainglory blossoms, and bears no fruit.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEngáñame en el precio, y no en lo que merco.Cheat me in the price and not in the goods.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCantar mal y porfiar.To sing out of tune and persist in it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa mas cauta es tenida por mas casta.The most cautious passes for the most chaste.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSi quieres dar de palos á tu muger, pídele al sol á beber.If you want to thrash your wife, ask her for a drink of water in the sun.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien la vaca del rey come flaca, gorda la paga.He who eats the king’s cow lean, pays for it fat.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBuen jubon me tengo en Francia.I have a good jacket in France.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAquel es tu amigo que te quita de ruido.He is your friend who gets you out of a fray.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa traicion aplace, mas no el que la hace.The act of treachery is liked, but not he that does it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa muger vieja, si no serve de olla, serve de cobertera.The old wife, if she does not serve for a pot, serves for a cover.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa gallina de mi vecina mas huevos pone que la mia.My neighbour’s hen lays more eggs than mine.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien quiere tomar, conviénele dar.He who would take must give.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuando el villano está rico, no tiene pariente, ni amigo.When a peasant gets rich, he knows neither relations nor friends.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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