Oveja que bala, bocado pierde.The sheep that bleats loses a mouthful.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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El agujero llama al ladron.The hole invites the thief.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSi el cielo se cae, pararle las manos.If the sky falls, hold up your hands.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEscuchas al agujero, oirás de tú mal y del ageno.If you listen at a hole, you will hear ill of yourself as well as others.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuando Dios quiere, con todos vientos llueve.When God pleases it rains with every wind.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesYo como tú y tú como yo, el diablo te me dió.I am like you and you like me, the devil united us.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA Mari Ardida nunca le falta mal dia, á Mari Monton Dios se lo da, y Dios se le pon.Mary Busybody never wants a bad day, and Hilary Drone has God to give and bring to her.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHidalgo honrado antes roto que remendado.A true gentleman would rather have his clothes torn than mended
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien come y dexa, dos veces pone la mesa.A penny spared is a penny saved.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTodo saldrá en la colada.It will all come out in the soapsuds.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl corcobado no vee su corcoba, y vee la de su compañon.The hunchback does not see his own hump, but sees his companion’s.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCon agena mano sacar la culebra del horado.To draw the snake out of the hole with another’s hand.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesIr por lana, y volver trasquilado.To go for wool and come back shorn.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCastillo apercebido no es decebido.A fortress on its guard is not surprised.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesVentura te dé Dios, hijo, que saber poco te basta.God give you luck, my son, for little wit must serve your turn.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa telaraña suelta al rato, y la mosca apana.The spider’s web lets the rat escape and catches the fly.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl buen hombre goza el hurto.The honest man enjoys the theft.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesViuda lozana, ó casada, ó sepultada, ó emparedada.A buxom widow must be married, buried, or cloistered.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo hay placer que no enfade, y mas si cuesta de valde.There is no pleasure but palls, and the more so if it costs nothing
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHuir y correr no es todo uno.To flee and to run are not all one
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHuyendo del toro, cayó en el arroyo.Flying from the bull he fell into the river.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien de locura enfermó, tarde sanó.Whoever falls sick of folly, is long in getting cured.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQueso de ovejas, leche de cabras, manteca de vacas.Cheese from the ewe, milk from the goat, butter from the cow.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe gran subida gran caida.The higher the rise the greater the fall.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources