Quien mal casa, tarde enviuda.He who marries ill, is long in becoming widowed.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Mal me quieren mis comadres, porque les digo las verdades.My gossips don’t like me because I tell them truths.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesUn amor saca otro.One love drives out another.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAsí me decis que en el monte hay lobos, y en el valle raposos.So you tell me there are wolves on the mountain, and foxes in the valley.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMas descubre un hambriento que cien letrados.A hungry man discovers more than a hundred lawyers.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSi de alguno te quieres vengar, has de callar.If you want to be revenged, hold your tongue.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEn cada tierra su uso.Every country has its custom.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl que está en la aceña muele, que no el que va y viene.He who remains in the mill grinds, not he who goes to and fro.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesOveja harta de su rabo se espanta.The full-fed sheep is frightened at its own tail.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe aquellos polvos vienen estos lodos.From that dust comes this mud.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMas vale vuelta de llave que conciencia de frayle.A turn of the key is better than the conscience of a friar.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien no alza un alfiler, no tiene en nada á su muger.He who does not pick up a pin cares nothing for his wife.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLo que mucho vale, de so tierra sale.What much is worth comes from the earth.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAgora que tengo oveja y borrego, todos me dizen: En hora buena estais, Pedro.Now that I have an ewe and a lamb, every one says to me: Good morrow, Peter.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCallar y ojos, tomaremos la madre y los pollos.Silence and look out, we shall catch both hen and chicks.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa cuba huele al vino que tiene.The 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 sourcesCada gallo canta en su muladar.Every cock crows on his own dunghill.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien las sabe, las tañe.Let him play the instrument who knows how.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien pesca un pez, pescador es.He who catches one fish is a fisherman.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesIr á la guerra ni casar, no se ha de aconsejar.Never advise a man to go to the wars, or to marry.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien quiere vivir sano, la ropa de invierno traiga en verano.He that would be healthy must wear his winter clothes in summer.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAbrenuncio Satanas, mala capa llevarás.Renounce the devil, and thou shalt wear a shabby cloak.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl dia que te casas, ó te matas ó te sanas.The day you marry ’tis either kill or cure.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl marido antes con un ojo que con un hijo.A husband with one eye rather than with a son.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources