El buey quando se cansa, firme sienta la pata.The tired ox plants his foot firmly.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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Achaques al viernes por no le ayunar.Friday pretexts for not fasting (meaning pleas of indisposition for not eating fish).
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo diga la lengua por do pague la cabeza.Let not the tongue utter what the head must pay for.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA dos pardales en una espiga nunca hay liga.Two sparrows on one ear of corn never agree.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCon dineros no te conocerás, sin dineros no te conocerán.With money you would not know yourself, without money nobody would know you.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNi do ni tomo, como judio en sábado.I neither give nor take, like a Jew on the Sabbath.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesJuego de manos, juego de villanos.Manual play, clowns’ play.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien dice lo que quiere, oye lo que no quiere.He who says what he likes, hears what he don’t like.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe los leales se hinchen los hospitales.The poor-houses are filled with the honestest people.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl hijo del asno dos veces rozna al dia.The son of an ass brays twice a day.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHumo y gotera, y la muger parlera, echan al hombre de su casa fuera.Smoke, a dripping roof, and a scolding wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAusencia enemiga de amor; quan lejos de ojo, tan lejos de corazon.Absence is a foe to love; away from the eyes, away from the heart.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDo fuerza viene, derecho se pierde.Where force prevails, right perishes.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEl carnero encantado que fué por lana, y volvió trasquilado.The deceived sheep that went for wool and came back shorn.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien todo lo niega, todo lo confiesa.He who denies everything confesses everything.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBurlaos con el asno, daros ha en la cara con el rabo.Play with an ass and he will flirt his tail in your face.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesEn salvo está el que repica.He is out of danger who rings the alarm-bell.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMaja los ajos, Pedro, mientra yo rallo el queso.Pound the garlic, Pedro, whilst I grate the cheese.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien se guarda, Dios le guarda.God helps him who helps himself.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDespues de vendimias, cestos.After the vintage, baskets.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesMas cerca están mis dientes que mis parientes.My teeth are nearer than my kindred.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLo que hecho es, hecho ha de ser por esta vez.What is done, is done for this time.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAlcança, quien no cansa.He who does not tire, achieves.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien guarda halla.He who saves, finds.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources