1263 sayings with source references.
Cada uno quiere llevar el agua á su molino, y dejar en seco el del vecino.Every one wishes to bring water to his own mill, and leave his neighbour’s dry.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSi el cielo se cae, quebrarse han las ollas.If the sky falls there will be pots broken.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLos dichos en nos, los hechos en Dios.Man proposes, God disposes.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSiete hermanos en un consejo, de lo tuerto hacen derecho.Seven brothers in a council make wrong right.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuanto sabes no dirás, quanto vés no juzgarás, si quieres vivir en paz.Tell not all you know, nor judge of all you see, if you would live in peace.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesAmigo quebrado, soldado, mas nunca sano.Friendship broken may be soldered, but never made whole.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA la primera azadonada quiere sacar agua.He expects to find water at the first stroke of the spade.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesSi la locura fuese dolores, en cada casa darian voces.If folly were a pain, there would be groaning in every house.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCoces de yegua, amores para el rocin.The mare’s kicks are caresses to the horse.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien tras otro cabalga, no ensilla quando quiere.He who rides behind another does not saddle when he will.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo quiebra delgado, sino gordo y mal hilado.It is not the fine, but the coarse and ill-spun that breaks.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe un solo golpe no se derrueca un roble.An oak is not felled at one stroke.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesA barba de necio aprenden todos á rapar.On a fool’s beard all learn to shave.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHalagar con la cola, y morder con la boca.To fawn with the tail, and bite with the mouth.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesLos amenazados comen pan.Threatened men eat bread.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesQuien amaga y no da, miedo ha.He who threatens to strike, and does not, is afraid.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesBel hombre no es todo pobre.A handsome man is not quite poor.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPalabras azucaradas por mas son amargas.Sugared words generally prove bitter.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNadie seria mesonero sino fuese por el dinero.No one would be an innkeeper but for money.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesCada ollero su olla alaba, y mas si la trae quebrada.Every potter praises his pot, especially if cracked.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesDe rabo de puerco nunca buen virote.A pig’s tail will never make a good arrow.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPiensa el ladron que todos son de sa condicion.The thief thinks that all men are like himself.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesNo diga nadie, de esta agua no beberé.Let no one say, “Of this water I will not drink.”
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesPerro lanudo, muerto de hambre, y no creido de ninguno.A shock dog is starved and nobody believes it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sources