Al enemigo, si vuelve la espalda, la puente de plata.Make a bridge of silver for the flying enemy.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Pues tenemos hogaças, no busquemos tortas.Since we have loaves let us not look for cakes.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEn voto del conde no mates al hombre.Don’t kill the man at the count’s desire.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesBien cuenta la madre, mejor cuenta el infante.The mother reckons well, but the child reckons better.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMas vale tarde que nunca.Better late than never.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA mucho hablar, mucho errar.Much talking, much erring.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA muertos y á idos no hay mas amigos.The dead and the absent have no friends.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMas vale solo que mal acompañado.Better be alone than in bad company.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesHacer la cuenta sin la huéspeda.To reckon without the hostess.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien no hace mas que otro, no vale mas que otro.He who does no more than another is no better than another.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA quien tiene buena muger, ningun mal le puede venir, que no sea de sufrir.He who has a good wife can bear any evil.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEchar la pluma al aire, y ver donde cae.To throw up a feather in the air, and see where it falls.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLa muger y la tela, no las cates á la candela.Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSi secretos quieres saber, buscalos en el pesar ó en el placer.If you want to know secrets, seek for them in trouble or in pleasure.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDios me dé contienda con quien me entienda.God grant me to argue with those who understand me.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAl médico, confesor, y letrado, no le hayas engañado.Deceive not thy physician, confessor, or lawyer.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNi perder derechos, ni llevar cohechos.Lose no rights, and commit no extortions.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSalir de un lodo y entrar en otro.To get out of one muck into another.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA fuer de Aragon, buen servicio, mal galardon.According to the custom of Aragon, good service, bad guerdon.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHaz lo que bien digo, y no lo que mal hago.Do what I say well, and not what I do ill
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSanan llagas, y no malas palabras.Wounds heal, but not ill words.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNi sirvas á quien sirvió, ni pidas á quien pidió.Neither serve one who has been a servant, nor beg of one who has been a beggar.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDe ruin á ruin, quien acomete vence.Coward against coward, the assailant conquers.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCon el Rey y con la Inquisicion, chitos!About the King and the Inquisition, hush!
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