1263 sayings with source references.
El hurtar es cosa linda, si colgasen por la pretina.Stealing would be a nice thing, if thieves were hanged by the girdle.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMucho tiene que hacer quien ha de gustar a todos.He has much to do who would please everybody.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo halla agua en la mar.He cannot find water in the sea.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien á su perro quiere matar, rabia le ha de levantar.He who wants to kill his dog has only to say he is mad.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl villano dadle el pie, y tomarse ha la mano.Give a clown your foot, and he’ll take your hand.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTodo es nada lo de este mundo, si no se endereza al segundo.All things of this world are nothing, unless they have reference to the next.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesVanse los gatos, y estiendense los ratos.When the cat’s away the rats will play.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPerro que lobos mata, lobos le matan.The dog that kills wolves, is killed by wolves.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLo que no lleva Christo, lleva el fisco.What Christ does not take the exchequer takes.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDi mentira, y sacarás verdad.Tell a lie, and you will bring out the truth.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesO rico, o pinjádo.Either rich or hanged.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNi el anzuelo, ni la caña, mas el cebo las engaña.It is not the hook or the rod, but the bait that lures.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl pie del dueño estierco para la heredad.The master’s foot is manure for the estate.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNadar y nadar, y á la orilla ahogar.To swim and swim more, and be drowned on shore.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesViejo como la sarna.As old as the itch.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBien ama quien nunca olvida.He loves well who never forgets.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSirve á señor, y sabrás que es dolor.Serve a lord and you’ll know what is grief.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA maravedi de pleyto, real de papel.A lawsuit for a maravedi consumes a real’s worth of paper.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo hay casa do no haya su calla! calla!There is no house without its hush! hush!
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTraerlo escrito en la frente.To have it written on his forehead.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA mula vieja cabezadas nuevas.New trappings to an old mule.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuando el bazo crece el cuerpo enmagrece.When the spleen increases, the body diminishes.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCara de beato, y uñas de gato.A devotee’s face, and a cat’s claws.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe mozo rezador, y de viejo ayunador, guarde Dios mi capa.From a praying young man, and a fasting old man, God preserve my cloak.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources