Quien con tosco ha de entender, mucho seso ha menester.He who has to deal with a blockhead has need of much brains.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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La manzana podrida perde a su compaña.The rotten apple spoils its companion.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo se queje del engaño quien por la muestra compra el paño.Let him not complain of being cheated who buys cloth by the pattern.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl que ley establece, guardarla debe.He who makes a law should keep it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa oveja harta, del rabo hace manta.The well-fed sheep makes a cloak of its tail.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTanto quiere el diablo á su hijo que le quiebra el ojo.The devil is so fond of his son that he put out his eye.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBurla burlando vase el lobo al asno.All in the way of joke the wolf goes to the ass.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSiembra trigo en barrial, y pón viña en cascajal.Sow corn in clay, and plant vines in sand.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl perro del herrero duerme á las martilladas, y despierta á las dentelladas.The smith’s dog sleeps at the noise of the hammer, and wakes at the grinding of teeth.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHarto es necio y loco, quien vacue su cuero por henchir el de otro.He is a great simpleton who starves himself to feed another
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSi el niño lloráre, acallelo su madre, y si no quisiere callar, déxelo llorar.If the child cries let the mother hush it, and if it will not be hushed let it cry.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuando el cosario promete misas y cera, con mal anda la galera.When the corsair promises masses and candles, it goes ill with the galley.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl loco y al toro, darles corro.Make way for a madman and a bull.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSacar verdad por decir mentira.To discover truth by telling a falsehood.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl amenazador hace perder el lugar de venganza.The threatener loses the opportunity of vengeance.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDonde hay gana, hay maña.Where there’s a will there’s a way.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl usar saca oficial.Practice makes perfect.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien no aprieta en vallejo, no aprieta en consejo.He who has no voice in the valley, will have none in the council.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSer como el escudero de Guadalaxara, que de lo que dice de noche, no hay nada á la mañana.To be like the esquire of Guadalaxara, who knew nothing in the morning of what he said at night.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA un traidor dos alevosos.Two false men to one traitor.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPara los desdichados se hizo la horca.The gallows was made for the unlucky.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAllá vayas, mal, adó te pongan buen cabeçal.Away with thee, sickness, to where they make a good pillow for thee.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMadre, que cosa es casar? Hija, hilar, parir, y llorar.Mother, what is marrying? Spinning, bearing children, and crying, daughter.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCortesía de boca mucho vale y poco cuesta.Lip courtesy avails much and costs little.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources