Who gives what he has before he is dead, take a mallet and knock that fool on the head.

Tradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857

Quien da lo suyo ántes de su muerte, que le den con un mazo en la frente.

Who gives what he has before he is dead, take a mallet and knock that fool on the head.

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Tradizione spagnola · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857

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