Puerco fiado, gruñe todo el año.A pig bought on credit grunts all the year.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Quien lengua ha, á Roma va.He who has a tongue goes to Rome.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLo ageno siempre pia por su dueño.What is another’s always pines for its master.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMarihuela, fuiste a la boda? No, madre, mas galana estava la novia.Were you at the wedding, Molly? No, mother, but the bride was very fine.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa gente pone, y Dios dispone.Man proposes, and God disposes.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA los osados, ayuda la fortuna.Fortune aids the bold.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDonde os comieron la carne, que roan los huesos.Where they eat your meat let them pick the bones.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAun no ensillamos, é ya cavalgamos.We have not yet saddled, and are already mounted.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCada buhonero alaba sus agujas.Every pedlar praises his own needles.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLos yerros del medico, la tierra los cubre.The earth hides as it takes, the physician’s mistakes.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien mas tiene, mas quiere.The more one has the more one wants.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesUna en el clavo y ciento en la herradura.One stroke on the nail and a hundred on the horseshoe.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAunque mi suegro sea bueno, no quiero perro con concerro.Though my father-in-law is a good man, I do not like a dog with a bell.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAunque me veis con este capote, otro tengo en el monte.Though you see me with this coat, I have another up the mountain.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa necesidad hace á la viega trotar.Need makes the old woman trot.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAntes de casar, ten casas en que morar, y tierras en que labrar, y viñas en que podar.Before you marry, have a house to live in, fields to till, and vines to cut.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQual es el rey, tal es la grey.As is the king, so are his people.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa carcel y la quaresma para los pobres es hecha.Prison and Lent were made for the poor.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien echa agua en la garrafa de golpe, mas derrama que ella coje.He who pours water hastily into a bottle spills more than goes in.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien peces quiere, mojarse tiene.He who wants to catch fish must not mind a wetting.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesRecebido ya el daño, atapar el horado.To stop the hole after the mischief is done.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesObra de comun, obra de ningun.What’s everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCon un poco de tuerto llega el hombre á su derecho.With a little wrong a man comes by his right.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCaldo de zorra que está frio y quema.Fox’s broth, cold and scalding.
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