Mas vale pajaro en mano que buitre volando.A sparrow in the hand is better than a bustard on the wing.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Nacenle alas a la hormiga para que se pierde mas aina.The ant gets wings that she may perish the sooner.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuando la criatura dienta la muerte la tienta.When the child cuts its teeth, death is on the watch.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien á dos señores ha de servir, al uno ha de mentir.He who has two masters to serve must lie to one of them.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl oficial que no miente, sálgase de entre la gente.The official who can’t lie may as well be out of the world.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBien merca á quien no dicen hombre bestia.He buys well who is not called a donkey.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBuena fama hurto encubre.A good name covers theft.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHombre harto no es comedor.A man that has had his fill is no eater
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBien sé lo que digo quando pan pido.I know well what I say when I ask for bread.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEsa es buena y honrada que es muerta y sepultada.She is good and honoured who is dead and buried.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA lo que puedes solo, no esperes á otro.Expect not at another’s hand what you can do by your own.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDormireis sobre ello, y tomareis acuerdo.Sleep over it, and you will come to a resolution.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien tiempo tiene y tiempo atiende, tiempo viene que se arrepiente.Who has time yet waits for time, comes to a time of repentance.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl hombre propone, y Dios dispone.Man proposes, and God disposes.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMal se cubre la cabra con el rabo.The goat can’t well cover herself with her tail.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl dar limosna nunca mengua la bolsa.Giving alms never lessens the purse.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHombre que no tiene cabeza no ha menester bonete.He who has no head wants no hat
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCada cuba huele al vino que tiene.Every cask smells of the wine it contains.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien tiene hijas para casar, tome vedijas para hilar.He who has daughters to marry, let him give them silk to spin.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSal vertida, nunca bien cogida.Salt spilt is never all gathered.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPor do quiera hay su legua de mal camino.Whatever way you take there is a league of bad road.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo hay tal testigo como buen moduelo de vino.There is no such witness as a good measure of wine
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCada uno por sí, y Dios por todos.Every one for himself, and God for us all.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSalud y alegria belleza cria; atavio y afeito cuesta dinero y miente.Health and cheerfulness make beauty; finery and cosmetics cost money and lie.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources