Spanish proverbs

thumb|He who wants the heavens must pay. thumb|right|The heart sees farther than the head. Proverbs from all Spanish-speaking parts of the whole world. A A caballo regalado no se le mira el diente/colmillo/dentado/pelo or A caballo regalado no le mires los dientes. English equivalent: Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. "Do not search for faults in a gift, as in don't try to guess the horse's age by looking at its teeth since it is free." Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 54 527 1-875943-44-7 Luna Cari 2004 The Everything Spanish Phrase Book: A Quick Reference for Any Situation publisher=Everything Books 5 224 275 1593370490 A cabo de cien años los reyes son villanos, A cabo de ciento-diez los villanos son reyes. English equivalent: Every dog has his day. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 22 A cada necio agrada su porrada. English equivalentː Every fool is pleased with his own folly. Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT411 I 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 139 147 A cada pajarillo agrada su nidillo. English equivalent: The bird loves her own nest. Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT410 II 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 776 923 A canas honradas no hay puertas cerradas. English equivalent: Grey hairs are honorable. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 35 A grandes males, grandes remedios. English equivalent: Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies. "Drastic action is called for – and justified – when you find yourself in a particularly difficult situation." "The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax." Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955) Source for meaning of English equivalent: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA53 10 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 53 Emanuel Strauss Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=sm96Wlt8Ql0C&pg=PT552 10 August 2013 11 January 2013 Routledge 978-1-136-78978-6 552 812 A la burla dexarla quando mas agrada. English equivalent: Leave a jest when it pleases you best. von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend https://books.google.se/books?id=zQYJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA59&dq=Un+poc+d%27zug+%C3%A8+po+b%C3%A8ll&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj12tXl2qT1AhWtR_EDHfCLAzgQ6AF6BAgDEAM#v=onepage&q=Un%20poc%20d'zug%20%C3%A8%20po%20b%C3%A8ll&f=false 1875 German I 59-60 122, aufhören A la ocasión la pintan calva. English equivalent: Opportunity knocks only once. "Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes’, otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life." Ian Fleming, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (1964) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 400 2200 0415096243 A la tercera va la vencida. English equivalent: Third time's the charm. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 80 2200 0415096243 A lo hecho, pecho. English equivalent: What's done is done. Trim your sails and face the music. Don't cry over spilled milk. A mal nudo, mal cuño. English equivalent: You must meet roughness with roughness. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 12 504 0415160502 ‘’A quien dan, no escoge.’’ English equivalent: Beggars can’t be choosers. “We must accept with gratitude and without complaint what we are given when we do not have the means or opportunity to provide ourselves with something better.” Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA19 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 19 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 16 A quien deja el camino por el atajo, no le faltarán trabajos. English equivalent: He that leaves the highway to cut short, commonly goes about. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT213 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 213 1405 A quien la pique, que se rasque. English equivalent: If the shoe fits, wear it. "Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure." Bishop Fleetwood, Preface to Sermons. Ordered burned by House of Commons, May, 1712. Strauss Emanuel Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=RzctBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA283 II 1994 978-1-136-78971-7 283 1276 A quien madruga, Dios le ayuda. Alt: Al que madruga, Dios le ayuda. Alt Variation: Al que madruga, Dios le ayuda; el que se apendeja Dios lo deja. (A play with words that rhyme) Translations: God helps those who get up early. / The early bird gets the worm. Alt.Var:God helps those who get up early, and leaves those who are too late. Interpretations: Initiative will be rewarded. Equivalent English proverbs: Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Meaning: "A lifestyle that involves neither staying up late nor sleeping late is good for body and mind and leads to financial success." Source for meaning of English equivalent: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA70 5 September 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 70 Source: Luna Cari 2004 The Everything Spanish Phrase Book: A Quick Reference for Any Situation Everything Books 5 224 275 1593370490 A quien no pide consejo, darlo es de necios. English equivalent: Give neither salt nor counsel till you are asked for it. Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=z-3FyaMKtfUC&pg=PA661 II 1994 978-0-415-10381-7 661 760 A quien se hace de miel las moscas le comen. English equivalent: He that makes himself an ass must not take it ill if men ride him. ** Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 676 2200 0415096243 A seguro, le llevan preso. For safety you are taken prisoner. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 881 2200 0415096243 A donde el seto es bajo todos pasan. English equivalent: Men leap over where the hedge is lower. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1087 2200 0415096243 Al amigo más amigo, no le fíes tu secreto, y así nunca te verás, arrepentido o sujeto. If you tell your secret to your friend, you will make him your master. Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 74 176 Al árbol por el fruto es conocido. English equivalent: The apple does not fall far from the tree. "Children observe daily and — in their behaviour — often follow the example of their parents." Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 259 527 1-875943-44-7 Al cuco no cuques y al ladrón no hurtes. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 25 504 0415160502 Al fin es debido el honor. English equivalent: All is well that ends well. "Problems and misfortunes along the way can be forgotten as long as the end is satisfactory." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA14 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 14 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 7 Al freir de los huevos lo verá. English equivalent: The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 77 Al hombre, en el hablar; y al pájaro, en el cantar. English equivalent: The bird is known by his note, the man by his words. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT39 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 39 222 Al hombre osado la fortuna le da la mano. English equivalent: Fortune favours the bold. Meaning: "Those who act boldly or courageously are most likely to succeed." Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA94 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 94 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 38 2200 0415096243 Al médico, confesor, y letrado, no le hayas engañado. English equivalent: Hide nothing from thy minister, physician and lawyer. Nuñez De Guzman Refranes, o proverbios en romance, etc. (Prologo del Maestro Leon ... sobre los refranes, etc.) Copious MS. notes https://books.google.com/books?id=HG4aL69fbIYC&pg=PA41 1804 41 Al mentiroso le conviene ser memorioso. English equivalent: A liar should have a good memory. Meaning: "Liars must remember the untruths they have told, to avoid contradicting themselves at some later date." Source for meaning of English equivalent: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA167 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 167 Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT736 24 November 2013 I 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 257 274 Al ratón de un sólo agujero presto le pilla el gato. English equivalent: It is a poor mouse that has only one hole. "Why don’t we just call plans what they really are: guesses." Jason Fried and David Heinemeier, Rework (2009) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 715 2200 0415096243 Al que mucho se le confía, mucho se le exige. English equivalent: Everybody to whom much is given, much is expected. Meaning: "More is expected of those who have received more - that is, those who had good fortune, are naturally gifted, or have been shown special favour." Source for meaning and proverbs: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC 8 September 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 75 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1095 2200 0415096243 Amores, dolores y dineros, No pueden estar secretos. English equivalent: Love, smoke and cough are hard to hide. Kelly Walter Keating 1859 Proverbs of all nations W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) 50 238 Antes de criticar pon la mano en tu mecho. English equivalent: Everyone should sweep before his own door. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 28 Antes de firmar, mirar. Translation: Look before you sign. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1160 2200 0415096243 Antes que te cases, mira lo que haces. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1069 2200 0415096243 Árbol que nace torcido, jamás su tronco endereza Alt: "Árbol que nace torcido, aunque le pongan cien piedras, nunca se endereza." A tree that is born twisted never grows straight. Alt: A tree that is born twisted, though a hundred stones are placed (around it), never can be straightened. Source: Glazer Mark 1987 A Dictionary of Mexican American Proverbs Greenwood Publishing Group 275 347 0313253854 A lo bueno, dejarlo estar.' English equivalent: If it isn't broken, don't fix it. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 166 504 0415160502A papaya puesta, papaya partida. (Colombian saying) Alt: No hay que dar papaya...y a papaya puesta, papaya partida Papaya that is served, papaya that is eaten English equivalent: If you turn yourself into a doormat, others will walk over you. Interpretation: If you leave yourself open to abuse, people will abuse you. Source: Munévar Gonzalo 2006 El amo del destino Universidad del Valle 208 283 9584400207A falta de pan, buenas son tortas.Alt: A falta de pan, galletasAlt: A falta de pan, tortillas (Mexico, Guatemala) Alt: A falta de pan, casabe (República Dominicana) Translations: If there's no bread, cakes will do. In place of bread, cakes are good. Alt. Trans.: If there's no bread, have crackers Interpretations: Settle for the next best thing. Beggars can't be choosers. In times of need, kindness is especially sweet. Equivalent English proverb: Any port in a storm. Source: Klipper Maya 2006 A falta de pan, buenas son tortas La Stampa 987051362X A donde fueres, haz lo que vieres Alt: Allá donde fueres, haz lo que vieres English proverb: When among wolves we must howl. Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 673 0415096243 Antes con locos, que cuerdo a solas. English equivalent: Better foolish by all than wise by yourself. Emanuel Strauss Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.se/books?id=RzctBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA22&dq=Better+be+foolish+with+all+than+wise+by+yourself+european+proverbs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAWoVChMI8qOljOzIxwIVgwgsCh3NsQBE#v=onepage&q=Better%20be%20foolish%20with%20all%20than%20wise%20by%20yourself%20european%20proverbs&f=false 70 Agua blanda en piedra dura, tanto cavadura continua gotera cava la piedra. English equivalent: Constant dropping wears the stone. "A steady effort can achieve, little by little, a great effect, as many drops do by gradually dissolving and eroding the stone." Paczolay Gyula European proverbs: in 55 languages, with equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese http://books.google.com/books?id=JiXzAAAAMAAJ 1997 Veszprémi Nyomda 1-875943-44-7 349 71 Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 187 504 0415160502 Apretados pero contentos. English equivalent: The more the merrier. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1094 2200 0415096243 Aprovecha el día presente. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 765 2200 0415096243 Aunque la mona se vista de seda, mona se queda. English equivalent: A golden bit does not make the horse any better. "To those who are given to virtue, the boast of titles is wholly alien and distasteful." Petrarch, “On the Various Academic Titles,” De remediis utriusque fortunae, C. Rawski, trans. (1967), p. 73 Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 52 504 0415160502 Al que Dios quiere castigar le quita la razón. English equivalent: Whom God will destroy, he first make mad. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 841 2200 0415096243 Alcalda del mes de enero. New is of the month of January English equivalent: New brooms sweep clean. "We often apply it to exchanges among servants, clerks, or any persons employed, whose service, at first, in any new place, is very good, both efficient and faithful; but very soon, when all the new circumstances have lost their novelty, and all their curiosity has ceased, they naturally fall into their former and habitual slackness." Porter William Henry Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA38 1845 Munroe and Company 38 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1103 2200 0415096243 A todo cerdo le llega su San Martín. Manuel Gómez de Valenzuela La vida cotidiana en Aragón durante la Alta Edad Media http://books.google.com/books?id=CUAwAAAAMAAJ 1 January 1980 Librería General 182 Aquél es rico, que está bien con Dios. English equivalent: He who serves God has a good master. "The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak." Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Politique Tirée de l'Écriture Sainte (Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture) (1679 - published 1709). Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 873 2200 0415096243 Aquél va más sano, que anda por el llano. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 701 2200 0415096243 Ara bien y hondo, cogerás pan en abando. English equivalent: Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you will have corn to sell and keep. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1001 2200 0415096243 B Bien predica quien bien vive. English equivalent: Lead by example. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 55 504 0415160502 Buen yunque no teme el martillo. English equivalent: A good anvil does not fear the hammer. Strauss Emanuel Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=RzctBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA29 1994 978-1-136-78971-7 100 97 (French) C Callen barbas y hablen cartas. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 808 2200 0415096243 Cada carnero de su pie cuelga. English equivalent: Every tub must stand on its own bottom. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 777 2200 0415096243 Cada cosa en su tiempo. English equivalent: Man proposes, God disposes. "Plans are insulted destinies. I don't have plans, I only have goals." Ash Chandler, Freudian Slip, Mumbai Mirror Buzz, April 2006. Caroline Ward National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA77 1842 J.W. Parker 29 Cada oveja, con su pareja. English equivalent: Like will to like. "Every man loves well what is like to himself." Folk-Etymology http://books.google.com/books?id=fXrlvr_kPXwC&pg=PA216 Ardent Media 216 1886 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 51 Costumbre adquirida en la mocedad, se deja muy mal en la vejez. English equivalent: Old habits die hard. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 1122 0415096243 Como canta el abad, así responde el sacristán. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 138 0415160502 Comprar gato en saco. English equivalent: Let the buyer have a thousand eyes for the seller wants only one. Theodore Sturgeon Venture (1957) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1101 2200 0415096243 Con el agua de la bañadera echar también al niño. English equivalent: Don't throw out the child with the bath water. "Do not take the drastic step of abolishing or discarding something in its entirety when only parts of it is unacceptable." Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA66 25 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 66 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 715 2200 0415096243 Con el tiempo todo se consigue. Swedish equivalent: Time heals all wounds. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 87 504 0415160502 Como midais sereis medidos. English equivalent: Whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1219 2200 0415096243 Con la gente no es temible la muerte. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 187 0415160502 Consejo de quien bien te quiere, aunque te parezca mal, escríbele. English equivalent: Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.se/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT11&dq=Write+down+the+advice+of+him+who+loves+you,+though+you+like+it+not+at+present+romance+proverbs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjI1PqlwffyAhUkQvEDHTb0ACAQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=Write%20down%20the%20advice%20of%20him%20who%20loves%20you%2C%20though%20you%20like%20it%20not%20at%20present%20romance%20proverbs&f=false 2001 11 28 Corazón no es traidor. English equivalent: The heart sees farther than the head. "We are double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn." As quoted in The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne (1877) edited by William Carew Hazlitt, p. 289 Manuel de Valbuena Diccionario universal Español -Latino http://books.google.com/books?id=50gOf3FIe5AC&pg=PA273 1822 Imp. Nacional 273 Quando amigo pide no hay mañana. When a friend asks their is no to-morrow. English equivalent: When thy friend asks, let there be no to-morrow. Logan W. McGregor Collection of Spanish Proverbs: With a Literal Translation Into English, for the Use of Those who are Learning Either Language ... https://books.google.com/books?id=WupLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA20 1830 20 Cuando el villano está en el mulo, no conoce a Dios, ni al mundo. English equivalent: Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the Devil. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT32 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 32 171 Cuando la cabeza duele todos los miembros duelen. English equivalent: When the head is sick, the whole body is sick. "Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy." George Ohsawa, in Essential Ohsawa : From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom : Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics (1994), p. 77 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1117 2200 0415096243 Cuando las barbas de tu vecino veas cortar, pon las tuyas a remojar. Translation: When you see your neighbour's beard being cut, put yours in water. Meaning: Be cautious when you see disgraces to people near you. Cuando todos dicen que eres asno, rebuzna y ponte rabo. English equivalent: When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1221 2200 0415096243 Cuando te dieren un condado, agárrale. English equivalent: When the pig is proffered, hold up the poke. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1226 2200 0415096243 Cuando una puerta se cierra, ciento se abren. English equivalent: When one door closes another opens. Meaning: "When baffled in one direction a man of energy will not despair, but will find another way to his object." Source for meaning: Proverbs of All Nations http://books.google.com/books?id=PdxtAAAAMAAJ 26 August 2013 1859 W. Kent & Company (late D. Bogue) 67 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 845 2200 0415096243 Cuanto menos se diga, mejor. English equivalent: Least said, soonest mended. Meaning: "In private animosities and verbal contentions, where angry passions are apt to rise, and irritating, if not profane expressions are often made use of, as we sometimes see to be the case, not only among neighbors, but in families, between husbands and wives, or parents and children, or the children themselves and other members of the household, - the least said, the better in general. By multiplying words, cases often grow worse instead of better." Source for meaning of English equivalent: Porter William Henry Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA125 1845 Munroe and Company 125 Whit Wirsing The Ultimate Spanish Phrase Finder: Frases Equivalente: Ingles-espanol, Espanol-ingles http://books.google.com/books?id=0effedg01CUC 8 June 2013 9 June 2009 McGraw Hill Professional 978-0-07-143303-7 110 Cuídame del agua mansa, que de la brava, yo sólo me cuidaré. English equivalent: Still water runs deep. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 52 2200 0415096243 Cuidado ajeno de pelo ruelga. English equivalent: No one knows where the shoe pinches, but he who wears it. Meaning: "Nobody can fully understand another person's hardship or suffering." Source for meaning of English equivalent: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 289 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 4 D Dar al diablo lo que es debido. English equivalent: Give the devil his due. "Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth." Plautus, Mostellaria, I. 3. 133. Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Allusions http://books.google.com/books?id=ltGvUYNkr8MC&pg=PA337 2009 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-7105-0 337 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 862 2200 0415096243 De buenas intenciones esta empedrado el camino al infierno. English equivalent: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 257 0415160502 De grandes cenas están las sepulteras llenas. English equivalent: Gluttony kills more than the sword. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 864 2200 0415096243 De la abundancia del corazón habla la boca. English equivalent: Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT7 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 7– 6 E De malas costumbres nacen buenas leyes. English equivalent: Good laws have sprung from bad customs. "Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain." Frédéric Bastiat, The Law (1850)å Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 879 2200 0415096243 Del mal el menos. English equivalent: Of two evils choose the least. "If you are forced to choose between two options, both of which are undesirable, all you can do is choose the one that is less undesirable than the other." Source for meaning of English equivalent: {Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA42 3 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 42 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 5 De noche los gatos Todos son Pardos. English equivalent: At night all cats are grey. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 10 De vez en cuando dormita el gran Homero. English equivalent: Even Homer sometimes nods. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT215 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 215 1420 H Debajo del sayal hay mal. English equivalent: Judge not a man and things at first sight. "No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first." Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "Novalis" (1829) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 713 2200 0415096243 Desconfía de los obsequios de tu enemigo. English equivalent: Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Spanish Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=P_GkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT123 2001 978-1-4657-5453-0 123 828 G Desde que no la veo, me muero de deseo. English equivalent: Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT7 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 7 1 E Despues de los años mil, Torna el agua a su carril. English equivalent: It will all be the same a hundred years hence. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 48 Devolver bien por mal. English equivalent: If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Meaning: Make something good out of bad things that has happened to you. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 838 2200 0415096243 Del hombre necio a veces buen consejo. English equivalent: A fool may give a wise man counsel. "Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers." Muhammad, The Last Sermon of Muhammad delivered on the Ninth Day of Dhul Hijjah 10 A.H (c. 630 AD) Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 40 504 0415160502 Dichoso el varón que escarmienta en cabeça agena y en la suya non. von Düringsfeld Ida Freiherr von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen sprachen vergleichend, zusammengestellt https://books.google.com/books?id=AAcJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA163 II 1875 German 163 288, Schaden Dime con quién andas, y te diré quién eres. English equivalent: A man is known by the company he keeps. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 5 Dinero guardado, dinero capado. Translation: The hidden things of wisdom and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is in them both? English equivalent: Money is there to be spent. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1013 2200 0415096243 Dios que de la llaga, de la medicina. English equivalent: God who gives the wound gives the salve. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 874 2200 0415096243 Dios me libre de hombre de un libro. English equivalent: Fear the man of one book. "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See (1990) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 851 2200 0415096243 Dios mejora, las horas. English equivalent: After rain comes sunshine. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 7 Dios tarda, pero no olvida. Translation: God is slow, but he does not forget. English equivalent: Punishment is lame but it comes. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 779 2200 0415096243 Dividar para reinar. Translation: Divide to rule. English equivalent: Divide and conquer. Meaning: "The best way to conquer or control a group of people is by encouraging them to fight among themselves rather than allowing them to unite in opposition to the ruling authority." Source for meaning of English equivalent: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA57 13 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 57 Strauss Emanuel Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=sm96Wlt8Ql0C&pg=PT565 1994 Routledge 978-1-136-78978-6 823 Dolor comunicado, dolor alviado. English equivalent: A problem shared is a problem halved. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 351 2200 0415096243 Donde faltó natura, allí va la mujer con su pintura. English equivalent: Life imitates art. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT20 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 20 83 Dueña yo dueña tu, ¿quién botará la puerca afuera? Translation: You a lady, I a lady who is to drive out the sow? English equivalent: There are too many chiefs and not enough indians. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 991 2200 0415096243 E Echar margaritas á puercos. English equivalent: Do not throw pearls before swine. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 22 El abismo llama al abismo English equivalent: Deep calls to deep. "((Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade." Homer, Odyssey, XI. 572. (~ 800 BC) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 695 2200 0415096243 El arte es largo y la vida breve. English equivalent: Life is short, and art long. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT20 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 20 84 El mejor no vale nada. English equivalent: Bad is the best choice. "I always search good in bad. l also search bad in good." Vennu Malesh, It's My Life (2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJa2kwoZ2a4 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 17 El peresozo siempre es menesteroso. English equivalent: Poverty is the reward of idleness. "Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe." Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1146 2200 0415096243 El ciego no distingue colores." English equivalent: A blind man should not judge of colours. "An uneducated man cannot judge of the attainments of the learned." M. W. Carr A Collection of Telugu Proverbs translated, illustrated and explained; together with some Sanscrit Proverbs printed in the Devanâgarî and Telugu Characters: By M. W. Carr. A Supplement to the Collection of Telugu Proverbs: containing additional Proverbs, an Index verborum, and an index to the European Proverbs quoted in illustration http://books.google.com/books?id=oJw-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA141 1868 Christian Knowledge Society's Press 141 Caroline Ward National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 1842 J.W. Parker 1– El dìa que te casas, o te matas o te sanas. English equivalents: Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. "Use great prudence and circumspection, in choosing thy wife, for from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life like unto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err but once." William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Certain Precepts Or Directions for the Well-Ordering and Carriage of a Man's Life (c. 1584, first published 1617) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 65 2200 0415096243 El favo es dulce, mas pica la abeja. English equivalent: He that will not endure the bitter will not live to see the sweet. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 837 2200 0415096243 El fruto no cae lejos del árbol. English equivalent: The apple does not fall far from the tree. "Children observe daily and — in their behaviour — often follow the example of their parents." Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 259 527 1-875943-44-7 El hijo de la gata ratones mata. English equivalent: Like father, like son. "Sons may look and behave like their fathers. This is due to inheritance and the example observed closely and daily." Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 137 527 1-875943-44-7 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 985 2200 0415096243 El hilo siempre se rompe por lo más delgado. English equivalent: A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. "A weak part or member will affect the success or effectiveness of the whole." Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA38 31 July 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 38 Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 19 504 0415160502 El lenguaje de la verdad es sencillo. English equivalent: Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about. "You do so love to talk in riddles. Do you do that, I wonder as a substitute for having anything interesting to say?" Dan Houser, Michael Unsworth and Christian Cantamessa, Read Dead Redemption (2010) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1216 2200 0415096243 El mejor nadador es del agua. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 879 2200 0415096243 El miedo no es tonto. English equivalent: Discretion is the better part of valor. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 703 2200 0415096243 El orin se come el hierro, y la envidia al mal sujeto. English equivalent: Envy is its own torturer. Strauss Emanuel Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=RzctBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 I 1994 978-1-136-78971-7 109– 425 El peresozo siempre es menesteroso. English equivalent: Poverty is the reward of idleness. Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT724 I 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 252 267 El perro ladra y la caravana pasa. English equivalent: The dogs bark but the caravan passes on. "Whatever any one does or says, I must be good." Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations (161 BC) Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 340 0415160502 El pez grande se come al chico. English equivalent: Men are like fish; the great ones devour the small. "Small organizations or insignificant people tend to be swallowed up or destroyed by those that are greater and more powerful." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA358 1 July 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 27 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1086 2200 0415096243 El poeta nace, el orador se hace. English equivalent: Poets are born, but orators are trained. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 331 504 0415160502 El que mucho habla, poco obra. Big talkers are not big doers. English equivalentː Great talkers are little doers. "Well done is better than well said." Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT398 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 398– El que no es conmigo, contra mí es. English equivalent: He who is not with me is against me. "Friends are those who believe in us and who want to help us whatever it is that we are trying to achieve." Aung San Suu Kyi, Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Acceptance Speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, Strasbourg, 22 October 2013 Originally from the Bible, Luke 11:23 and Matthew 12:30. Specificed as a proverb in (Strauss, 1994 p. 974) El que jugó, jugará. English equivalent: Once a drunkard always a drunkard; Once a thief always a thief. "People keep telling us who they are, but we ignore it - because we want them to be who we want them to be." Lisa Albert, Janet Leahy, Matthew Weiner, Mad Men (2010) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 771 2200 0415096243 El que no es envidiado, es que no es afortunado. English equivalent: No enemies is a sign that fortune has forgotten you. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1008 2200 0415096243 El ruin pajarillo, Descubra su nidillo. English equivalent: Don't wash your dirty linen in public; It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest. "Why wantonly proclaim one's own disgrace, or expose the faults or weaknesses of one's kindred or people?" "It is considered contemptible to defy the rule of solidarity by revealing facts harmful to the group one belongs to." Proverbs of All Nations http://books.google.com/books?id=PdxtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA109 1859 W. Kent & Company (late D. Bogue) 109 Paczolay Gyula European proverbs: in 55 languages, with equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese http://books.google.com/books?id=JiXzAAAAMAAJ 1997 Veszprémi Nyomda 1-875943-44-7 466 106 Kelly Walter Keating W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) Proverbs of all nations 1859 45 238 El que se ahoga, se agarra a un perlo English equivalent: A drowning man plucks at a straw. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 33 504 0415160502 El que súbito se determina, súbito se arrepiente. English equivalent: Hasty judgment leads to repentance. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 196 2200 0415096243 El tiempo perdido los santos lo lloran. English equivalent: Time is precious. "Days are of the least pretension, and of the greatest capacity of anything that exists. They come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Works and Days. (1904) Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=z-3FyaMKtfUC&pg=PA723 II 1994 Taylor & Francis 978-0-415-10381-7 723 858 El tiempo y la marea no esperan al rey. English equivalent: Time and tide wait for no man. "The negligent and unreflecting man resolves to accomplish a certain important object at some future period; but in the intervening time, some preparatory, though in itself comparatively trifling business, is indispensable. At length the period for accomplishing the ultimate object arrives: but, alas! the prerequisite, so absolutely connected and essential, is neglected, and then, vain man!" Source for meaning of English equivalent: Porter William Henry Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA169 1845 Munroe and Company 169 Strauss Emanuel Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=HJ_BJtntMioC&pg=PA167 II 1994 Routledge 978-0-203-00905-5 1210 1743 El trabajo según la paga. English equivalent: You get what you pay for. "The quality of goods and services is reflected in their price - cheap things are usually inferior and expensive things are usually superior." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA315 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 315 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 494 2200 0415096243 En boca cerrada ni moscas ni nada. English equivalent: A still tongue keeps a cool head. "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." Publilius Syrus, Sententiae (100 B.C) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 73 2200 0415096243 En casa del ahorcado, no se ha de mentar la soga. English equivalent: Name not a rope in his house who hanged himself. Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 86 176 En casa del herrero, cuchillo de palo. English equivalents: The shoemaker goes barefoot. "Working hard for others one may neglect one's own needs or the needs of those closest to him." Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 65 527 1-875943-44-7 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 661 2200 0415096243 En la duda, abstente. English equivalent: When in doubt, don't. "If you are unsure what to do, it is best to do nothing at all." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA123 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 296 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1223 2200 0415096243 En la tardanza suele estar el peligroso. English equivalent: Delays are dangerous. "Hesitation or procastination may lead to trouble or disaster." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA53 10 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 53 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 695 2200 0415096243 En tierra de ciegos, el tuerto es rey. English equivalent: Among the blind, the one-eyed is king. "People of only limited capability can succeed when surrounded by those who are even less able than themselves." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA143 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 143 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 2 En toda cosa hay que considerar el fin. English equivalent: Whatever you do, act wisely, and consider the end. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 600 2200 0415096243 Entre dos muelas cordales nunca pongas tus pulgares. English equivalent: Don't go between the tree and the bark. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 729 2200 0415096243Es más fácil ver la paja en ojo ajeno que la viga en el propio (taken from the Bible, Matthew, 7:3-5) English equivalent: We see the mote in anothers eye but not the beam in our own. Strauss Emmanuel 1995 Las Condiciones de Vida de la Población Pobre de la Provincia de Albacete Cáritas Española 113 246 8489397058 Es un hombre sin honor, el que piense mal de esta acción. English equivalent: Shame take him that shame thinketh. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Robert J. Hanlon, Murphy's Law Book Two : More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong! (1980) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge entry 806 2200 0415096243 Estar en Roma y no ver el papa. English equivalent: He was in Rome and did not see the pope. Emanuel Strauss Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=RzctBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA274 11 January 2013 Routledge 978-1-136-78971-7 274El mal escribano le echa la culpa a la pluma English equivalent: A bad workman blames his tools. Pérez Martínez Herón 1993 Refrán viejo nunca miente: refranero mexicano Colección Tradiciones Colegio de Michoacán 113 350 9686959068 El saber es fuerza. English equivalent: Learning is the eye of the mind. "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." William Feather As quoted in Telephony, Vol. 150 (1956), p. 23; the first two sentences of this statement began to be attributed to Anatole France in the 1990s, but without any citations of sources. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 149 504 0415160502 El que no oye consejo no llega a viejo. English equivalent: Advice most needed is the least heeded. Source: Glazer Mark 1987 A Dictionary of Mexican American Proverbs Greenwood Publishing Group 112 347 0313253854 El que tiene frio sopla el fuego. English equivalent: Let him that is cold blow the coals. "My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion." Tony Hawk, American businessman, entrepreneur, skateboard pro. Interviewed by Gary Cohn for Entrepreneur Magazine (October 2009) Caroline Ward National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA77 1842 J.W. Parker 77 Ése es mi amigo, el que muele en mi molinillo. English equivalent: He is my friend that grinds at my mill. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT173 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 173 1135 Es cosa de dos. English equivalent: It takes two to tango. Författare Cambridge University Press 2008 Titel Diccionario Bilingue Cambridge Spanish-English Paperback Compact edition Cambridge University Press 576 1195 8483234823 Es el tono que hace la música. Emanuel Strauss Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=sm96Wlt8Ql0C&pg=PT802 11 January 2013 Routledge 978-1-136-78978-6 802 1341 Es mejor tostón asegurado que dime apostado. English equivalent: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. "Something you have for certain now is of more value than something better you may get, especially if you risk losing what you have in order to get it." Source for meaning of English equivalent: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC 29 July 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 28 Es muy frecuente la risa en la boca del necio. English equivalent: A fool is ever laughing. Emanuel Strauss Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=sm96Wlt8Ql0C&pg=PT102 1994 Routledge 978-1-136-78978-6 102 137 Es peor el remedio que la enfermedad. Translation: The remedy is often worse than the disease; Burn not your house to rid it off the mouse. "Action taken to put something right is often more unpleasant or damaging than the original problem." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA232 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 232 Urbina 2005 Refranero Latino Ediciones Akal 306 416 8446012960 Excusa no pedida, la culpa manifesta. English equivalent: A guilty conscience needs no accuser. "People who know they have done wrong reveal their guilt by the things they say or the way they interpret what other people say." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA112 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 112 Strauss Emanuel Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=sm96Wlt8Ql0C&pg=PT565 1994 Routledge 978-1-136-78978-6 227 243 F Fray Modesto nunca llegó a ser prior del convento. English equivalent: Faint heart never won fair lady. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Italian Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=PPCkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT19 2001 978-1-4660-0793-2 19 98Fue por lana y salió trasquilado. (He/She) went looking for wool and came back shorn. Interpretations: If you go for something it might end up biting you you woo someone but end up heartbroken. you try to cheat someone but get cheated yourself. Chasing glamour will get you fleeced. All that glitters isn't gold. Muñoz Borrero Eduardo 1981 En el Palacio de Carondelet: gobernantes ecuatorianos del Presidente Flores al Presidente Hurtado Artes Gráficas Señal 507 694 0415160502 G Gato escaldato del aqua fria há miedo. English equivalent: A burnt child dreads the fire. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 2 Gobernar es prever. English equivalent: An ounce of preventions is better than a pound of cure. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 332 0415160502 Guarda mozo, y hallarás viejo. English equivalent: Diligent youth makes easy age. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 701 2200 0415096243 H Hay gato encerrado. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1070 2200 0415096243 Haz lo que dice el fraile, y no lo que hace. English equivalent: Preachers say: do as I say, not as i do. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 706 2200 0415096243 Hacer de una pulga un elefante. English equivalent: Don't make a mountain out of a molehill. Kelly Walter Keating W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) Proverbs of all nations 1859 58 238 Hechos dan testimonio, que no las palabras. English equivalent: No need of words, trust deeds. "Actions may be, and indeed sometimes are deceptive in a measure though not as much so as words; and accordingly are received in general as more full and satisfactory proofs of the real disposition and character of persons than verbal expressions." Source for meaning:Porter William Henry Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA10 1845 Munroe and Company 10 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 91 2200 0415096243 Hijo de gato, caza ratón English equivalent: Like father, like son. Howard Christopher Official Guide to Cuban Spanish Costa Rica Books 113 1881233901Hombre prevenido vale por dos. English equivalent: Forewarned is forearmed. Source: Glazer Mark 1987 A Dictionary of Mexican American Proverbs Greenwood Publishing Group 162 347 0313253854 Hoy por mí y mañana por tí. English equivalent: Today me, tomorrow thee. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1038 2200 0415096243 Quien con el diablo haya de comer, larga cuchara ha menester. English equivalent: He who sups with the devil must use a long spoon. "I do not think life will change for the better without an assault on the establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth. This belief lies at the heart of the concept of revolutionary suicide. Thus it is better to oppose the forces that would drive me to self-murder than to endure them. Although I risk the likelihood of death, there is at least the possibility, if not the probability, of changing intolerable conditions." Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide (1973), p. 3 Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 920 0415160502 J Jugar con fuego es peligroso. English equivalent: Do not play with edged tools. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 716 2200 0415096243 L La barba no hace el filósofo. English equivalent: It is not the beard that makes the philosopher. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT29 2001 DeProverbio.com 978-1-4660-4673-3 29 146 La buena madre no dice quieres. English equivalentː The good mother saith notː will you? but gives. von Düringsfeld Ida von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld Otto Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend https://books.google.com/books?id=AAcJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA66 1875 German 66 115, Mutter La carne más sabrosa es la que está junta al hueso. English equivalent: The sweetest flesh is near the bones. Strauss Emanuel 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge II 1666 1176 2200 0415096243 La dicha de la fea, la linda de la desea . English equivalent: Handsome is that handsome does. "People should be valued for their good deeds, not their good looks, also occasionally used of things, or as a warning not to be misled by an attractive appearance." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 113 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 879 2200 0415096243 La envidia es la sombra de la gloria. English equivalent: Envy always shooteth at a high mark. "Envy is a kind of praise." John Gay, Fables Fable XLIV, "The Hound and the Huntsman" (1727) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 766 2200 0415096243 La envidia no muere jamás. English equivalent: Envy takes no holiday. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 767 2200 0415096243 La historia se repite. English equivalent: History repeats itself. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT213 978-1-4660-4673-3 213–214 1408 La manzana podrida pudre a su vecina. English equivalent: One rotten apple will spoil the whole barrel. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT17 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 17–18 69 E La mayoría es razón. English equivalent: What everybody says must be true. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 77 2200 0415096243 La mayor dicha o desdicha del hombre es la mujer. English equivalent: A cheerful wife is the spice of life. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 20 504 0415160502 La mejor defensa es el ataque. English equivalent: The best defence is a good offense. "You are more likely to win if you take the initiative and make an attack rather than preparing to defend yourself." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA21 30 June 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 21 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 518 2200 0415096243 La mejor salsa es el hambre. English equivalent: Hunger is the best sauce. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT228 2001 DeProverbio.com 978-1-4660-4673-3 228 1513 H La nave está más segura con dos anclas que no con una. English equivalent: Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one break the other may hold. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT14 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 14 48 E La necesidad hace a la vieja trotar. English equivalent: Necessity has no law. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 60 La ropa sucia se lava en casa. English equivalent: It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 702 2200 0415096243 La rueda de la fortuna nunca es una. English equivalent: The wheel of fortune is forever in motion. von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend https://books.google.se/books?id=M8OMsKaoaqEC&pg=PA318&dq=Lukka+vender+seg+ofta+um+sprichw%C3%B6rter+der+germanischen+und+romanischen&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwie0oDYg-b0AhViSvEDHXxiDDwQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&q=Lukka%20vender%20seg%20ofta%20um%20sprichw%C3%B6rter%20der%20germanischen%20und%20romanischen&f=false 1875 German I 318 611, Glücksrad La salud ante todo. English equivalent: Good health is above wealth. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 879 2200 0415096243 (*) La salud no es conocida hasta que es perdida. English equivalent: Health is not valued till sickness comes. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT209 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 209 1373 H La sangre es más espesa que el océano. English equivalent: Blood is thicker than water. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT44 2001 DeProverbio.com 978-1-4660-4673-3 44 257 La serpiente se oculta en la hierba. English equivalent: Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1070 2200 0415096243 La voz del pueblo es voz de Dios. English equivalent: The voice of the people is the voice of god. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1164 2200 0415096243 La segunda idea suele ser mejor. English equivalent: Second thoughts are the best. "It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment, but not in matters of conscience. In matters of duty, first thoughts are commonly best. They have more in them of the voice of God." John Henry Newman, Parochial and Plain Sermons: Volume IV (1838), Sermon 2 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 73 Las parablas no cuentan. English equivalent: Eggs and oaths are soon broken. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 765 2200 0415096243 La unión hace la fuerza. English equivalent: United we stand, divided we fall; Union is strength. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 79 2200 0415096243 Las ratas abandonan el barco que se hunde. English equivalent: Rats desert a sinking ship. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1150 2200 0415096243 Ladroncillo de agujeta, después sube a barjuleta. English equivalent: He that steals an egg will steal an ox. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 962 2200 0415096243 Lavandera mala no encuentra jamás buena piedra. Translation: A bad washer doesn't ever find a good rock. English equivalent: A bad craftsman blames his tools. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 4 0415160502 Las aguas quietas calan hondo. Translation: Still waters run deep. English equivalent: Still waters run deep. Source for proverb: Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 598 2200 0415096243 Las aparencias engañan. English equivalent: Appearances deceive. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 124 0415160502 En la variedad está el gusto. English equivalent: Variety is the spice of life. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 225 0415160502 Lo barato cuesta caro. English equivalent: If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 53 491 0415160502 Lo que mal empieza, mal termina. English equivalent: A bad beginning makes a bad ending. "It is as impossible that a system radically erroneous, once commenced, should end well, as it is that a mathematical problem, commenced wrong, should come out right." William Henry Porter Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA202 1845 Munroe and Company 202 Emanuel Strauss Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=sm96Wlt8Ql0C&pg=PT9 1994 Routledge 978-1-136-78978-6 1 1 Lo Ajeno dura Poco...Lo que no mata, engorda. Alt: Mugre (mierda) que no mata, engorda. Alt: Veneno que no mata, engorda. (Peru) E nglish equivalent: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. (Nietzsche) Source: Glazer Mark 1987 A Dictionary of Mexican American Proverbs Greenwood Publishing Group 162 308 0313253854 Lo mejor es enemigo de lo bueno. English equivalent: The good is the enemy of the best. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT37 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 37–38 209 Lo que puedes sólo, no esperes a otro. English equivalent: For what thou canst do thyself, rely not on another. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 600 2200 0415096243 Los grandes ingenios se encuentran. English equivalent: Great minds agree. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 882 2200 0415096243 Los primeros serán postreros. English equivalent: The last will be first, and the first last. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1085 2200 0415096243 M Manos besa el hombre, que querria ver cortadas. English equivalent: Many kiss the hand they wish cut off. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1084 2200 0415096243 Mas de prisa, más despacio. English equivalentː More haste less, speed. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT204 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 204 H 1344 Más lejos ven los sesos que los ojos. English equivalent: The eye looks but it is the mind that sees. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1175 2200 0415096243 Mas vale algo que nada English equivalent: Better a lean jade than an empty halter. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 75 504 0415160502 Más vale andarse soltero que con mal compañero. English equivalent: Better be alone than in bad company. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 572 2200 0415096243 Más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando. English equivalent: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Source: Glazer Mark 1987 A Dictionary of Mexican American Proverbs Greenwood Publishing Group 224 308 0313253854 Más vale un enemigo discreto que un amigo necio. English equivalent: A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT129 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 129 832 Más vale un hecho que cien palabras. English equivalent: Actions speak loudee than words. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT9 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 9–10 13 E Más vale un presente que dos después. English equivalent: One today is worth ten tomorrows. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1137 2200 0415096243 Mas valé punada de natural que almorzada de ciencia. English equivalent: Nature is beyond all teaching. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 764 2200 0415096243 Mas vale rodear que no ahogar. English equivalent: Better go about than fall into the ditch. Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 11 176 Mas vale saber que hablar (haber). English equivalent: A good mind possess a kingdom. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 58 504 0415160502 Mas vale tarde que nunca. English equivalent: Better late than never. "It is better that somebody arrives or something happens later than expected or desired, than not at all." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA25 30 June 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 25 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 14 Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo. Alt: Sabe más el diablo por viejo que por diablo. Translation: The devil knows more because he's old, than because he is devil. Interpretations: With age comes wisdom. Source: Glazer Mark 1987 A Dictionary of Mexican American Proverbs Greenwood Publishing Group 78 308 0313253854 ¡Médico, cúrate a ti mismo! English equivalent: Physician, heal yourself! Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1142 2200 0415096243 Mejor es doblar que quebrar. English equivalent: Better bow than break. "It is better to make some confession, or pay a little deference to others, our neighbors, friends, acquaintances, and especially our superiors, rather than lose our credit or break friendship." Porter William Henry Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA46 1845 Munroe and Company 46 Ward Caroline National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA20 1842 J.W. Parker 20 Mejor es el fin que los medios. English equivalent: Crooked logs make straight fires. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 683 2200 0415096243 Menea la cola el can, no por ti, sino por el pan. English equivalent: Dogs wags their tails, not so much to you as your bread. "Women, like princes, find few real friends." George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, Advice to a Lady, Stanza 2. (1731) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 710 2200 0415096243 Meted las manos en vuestro seno, veréis vuestro mal y no el ajeno. English equivalent: Forget other faults remembering your own; Forgive and forget. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 838 2200 0415096243 Mientras la hierba crece el caballo muere. English equivalent: While the grass grows the steed starves. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1228 2200 0415096243 Mirar antes de saltar. English equivalent: Look before you leap. "The man who thinks before he acts, is most likely to act with discretion, and have no future cause to repent of his conduct; but he who acts blindly, without any foresight, will probably suffer for his rashness." Trusler John 1790 Proverbs exemplified, and illustrated by pictures from real life http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004859207.0001.000?rgn=main;view=fulltext 115 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 751 2200 0415096243 Mucha paya y poco grano; es por vicio del verano. English equivalent: Great cry and little wool. "Much ado about nothing." Keating Walter Proverbs of All Nations http://books.google.com/books?id=PdxtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA128 1859 W. Kent & Company (late D. Bogue) 128 Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT499 I 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 173 178 Mucho sabe el rato, pero mas el gato. The mouse is wise but the cat is wiser. Alfonso Lowe, The Spanish: The Intrepid Nation (Anchor Press, 1975) p. 155 Muchos amenes al cielo llegan. English equivalent: Short prayers reach heaven. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 75 Mucho tiene que hacer quien ha de gustar á todos. English equivalent: He had need rise early who would please everybody. "It is impossible to do something that everybody will approve of." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA313 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 313 Caroline Ward National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA43 1842 J.W. Parker 43 Muchos golpes derriban un roble. English equivalent: Little strokes fell great oaks. "A difficult task, e. g. removing a person/group from a strong position, or changing established ideas cannot be done quickly. It can be achieved gradually, by small steps, a little at a time." Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 252 527 1-875943-44-7 N Nada hay nuevo debajo del sol. English equivalent: Nothing is new. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1114 2200 0415096243 Nadie da palos de balde. English equivalent: You don't get nothing for nothing; The only free cheese is in the mouse trap. "Everything has to be paid for, directly or indirectly, in money or in kind." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA314 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 314 Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 799 0415096243 Nadie es indispensable. English equivalent: No man is indispensable. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 319 504 0415160502 Nadie puede ser juez en causa propia. English equivalent: No one can be the judge in his own case. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1038 2200 0415096243 Necio es quien piensa que otros no piensan. English equivalent: He is a fool that thinks not another thinks. "Never hate your enemies, it clouds your judgement." Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, The Godfather Part III (1990), in a line for Michael Corleone. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 879 2200 0415096243 Ni de amigo reconcilado, ni de manjar dos veces guisado. English equivalent: Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 25 504 0415160502 Ni de lagrimas de Puta, ni de fieros de Rufian. Care not for the tears of a Whore, or the bravadoes of a Ruffian. James Howell, Lexicon Tetraglotton, &c. (London: Thomas Leach, 1660), "Spanish Proverbs", p. 7 No dejes camino viejo por sendero nuevo. English equivalent: A short cut is often a wrong cut. Strauss 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 394 0415160502 No dejes para mañana lo que puedas hacer hoy. English equivalent: Leave nothing for tomorrow what can be done today. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 177 0415160502 No fies mujer de fraile, ni barajes con alcade. English equivalent: A king's favour is no inheritance. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 24 504 0415160502 No hay ausente justo. English equivalent: The absent are always in the wrong. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT7 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 1 3 E No hay cerrudura, si es de oro la ganzua. English equivalent: A golden key opens any gate but that of heaven. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 31 No hay cosa secreta que tarde o temprano no se sepa. English equivalent: There is nothing hidden that will not become public. Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.se/books?id=RzctBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA216&dq=Es+ist+nichts+so+fein+gesponnen,+es+kommt+doch+an+die+Sonnen+dictionary+of+european+proverbs&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiO5Mqc_970AhUxRPEDHRxKAOYQ6AF6BAgEEAM#v=onepage&q=Es%20ist%20nichts%20so%20fein%20gesponnen%2C%20es%20kommt%20doch%20an%20die%20Sonnen%20dictionary%20of%20european%20proverbs&f=false II 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 771-773 921 No hay enemigo pequeño. English equivalent: There is no little enemy. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 718 2200 0415096243 No hay mal que por bien no venga. English equivalent: Every cloud has a silver lining. No hay peor burla, Que la verdadera. English equivalent: Many a true words are spoken in jest. "A joke's a very serious thing." Charles Churchill, The Ghost (1763), book iv, line 1386 Kelly Walter Keating 1859 Proverbs of all nations W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) 57 238 No hay peor ciego que el que no quiere ver. English equivalent: There are none so blind as they who will not see. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 320 0415160502 No hay peor sordo que el que no quiere oír. English equivalent: None so deaf as those who will not hear. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1110 2200 0415096243 No hay regla sin excepción. English equivalent: There is no rule without an exception. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1174 2200 0415096243 No hay que dejar lo segur por lo dudoso English equivalent: He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance, When fools pipe, he may dance. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 638 504 0415160502 No hay que jugar con le salud. English equivalent: Don't burn the candles at both ends. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1137 2200 0415096243 No hay tal arte como el que oculta el arte. English equivalent: The best art conceals art. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT20 2001 DeProverbio.com 978-1-4660-4673-3 20 81 E No hay tal ciencia como tener paciencia. English equivalent: An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 415 2200 0415096243 No hay tal razón como la del bastón. English equivalent: Accusing is proving, when malice and force sit judges; The wolf finds a reason for taking the lamb. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 68 2200 0415096243 No pidas perdon antes de ser acusado. English equivalent: Never ask pardon before you are accused. Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 87 176 No se pierde todo lo que está en peligro. English equivalent: Bitter pills may have blessed effects. "Present afflictions may tend to our future good." James Kelly A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs Explained and Made Intelligible to the English Reader http://books.google.com/books?id=tsBCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA43 1818 Rodwell and Martin 43 Caroline Ward National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11 1842 J.W. Parker 11 No te arrepientas nunca de haber comido poco. English equivalent: Feed sparingly and defy the physician. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 763 2200 0415096243 No todas las verdades son para dichas. English equivalent: All truths are not to be told. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 282 2200 0415096243 No todo es vero lo que suena el pandero. English equivalent: A story never loses in the telling. Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 7 176 No todo lo que brilla es oro. English equivalent: Not everything that glitters is gold. Source: Glazer Mark 1987 A Dictionary of Mexican American Proverbs Greenwood Publishing Group 292 347 0313253854 No se cazan liebres al son del tambor. English equivalent: Drumming is not the way to catch a hare. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 754 2200 0415096243 No se está nunca tan bien que no se pueda estar mejor, ni tan mal que no se pueda empeorar. English equivalent: Nothing so good but it might have been better. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT192 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 192 1265 No se pierde nada por esperar. English equivalent: We shall lose nothing by waiting. Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=z-3FyaMKtfUC&pg=PA1218 II 1994 978-0-415-10381-7 1218 1770 No se puede sacar agua de una piedre. English equivalent: You cannot get blood from a stone. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1040 2200 0415096243 No vendas la piel del oso antes de cazarlo. English equivalent: Don't count your chickens before they hatch. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 708 0415160502 Non hay libro tan malo, que no tenga algo bueno. English equivalent: No book was so bad, but some good might be got out of it. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1104 2200 0415096243 O Obra de comun, obra de ningun. English equivalent: Everyone's business is no ones business. "Matters that are of general concern, but are the responsibility of nobody in particular, tend to get neglected because everybody thinks that somebody else should deal with them." Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 116 Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA333 11 June 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 333 Oro es lo que oro vale. English equivalent: Everything is worth its price. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 33 P Para curar no basta la intencion. English equivalent: It is not wise to open old wounds. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages 45 Para eurar no basta la intencion. English equivalent: Least said, soonest mended. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages 45 Para todo hay comentario. English equivalent: Every why hath its wherefore. "Everything has an underlying reason." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA80 22 September 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 80 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 765 2200 0415096243 Pato, ganso y ansarón, tres cosas suena y una son. English equivalent: Goose, gander and gosling are three sounds but one thing. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 104 2200 0415096243 Perro ladrador, poco mordedor. English equivalent: Barking dogs seldom bite. / All bark, no bite. "Threatening does not always lead to action: Harsh words may disguise a different feeling, intention or ability." Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 92 0415160502 Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 44 527 1-875943-44-7 Peso y medida quitan al hombre fatiga. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages X Piedra sin agua no aguza en la fragua. English equivalent: From nothing nothing can come. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 238 504 0415160502 Poner el carro antes los bueyes. Translation: To set the cart before the horse. English equivalent: Don't put the cart before the horse. "It is important to do things in the right or natural order." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA63 18 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 63 Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 106 176 Preso por uno preso por ciento. English equivalent: In for a penny in for a pound. Ray John Belfour John A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages http://books.google.com/books?id=Uz0KAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA149 1813 G. Cowie and co. 149 Presto hay un bastón para dar al perro. English equivalent: A stick is easily found to beat a dog. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 104 0415160502 Por conservar amistad pared en medio. English equivalentː A hedge between keeps friends green. Reinsberg-Düringsfeld Ida von Düringsfeld Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen vergleichend zusammengestellt von I. von Düringsfeld und O. Freiherrn von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld https://books.google.com/books?id=NaT4ynv1ZTMC&pg=PA74 1875 German 74 128, Nachbarn Por preguntar, nada se pierde. English equivalent: Lose nothing for want of asking. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT21 2001 DeProverbio.com 978-1-4660-4673-3 21 Por un gustazo, un trancazo. Translation: Pride comes before fall. Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 1148 0415096243 Por una parte se pierde el todo. English equivalent: A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages 70 Q Cual es Maria, tal hija cría . English equivalent: Like mother, like daughter. "Daughters may look and behave like their mothers. This is due to inheritance and the example observed closely and rarely." Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 137 527 1-875943-44-7 Quien á mano agena espera, mal yanta y peor cena. English equivalent: He that waits on another man's trencher, makes many a late dinner. Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 55 176 Quien calla, otorga. (El que calla, otorga.) 'Silence is assent' Interpretation: 'If you do not speak out against "it", that is equivalent to approving "it".' You cannot keep silent in the face of injustice and then complain about it afterward. English equivalent: Silence gives consent. de Guzmán Fernando Núñez Refranes ó proverbios en Romance https://books.google.com/books?id=rsVIAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA106 1619 106– Q Spanish Quien mala cama hace, En ella se hace. English equivalent: As you make your bed, so you must lie. "You must put up with the unpleasant results of a foolish action or decision." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA14 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 14 Qué bonito es ver la lluvia y no mojarse. English equivalent: Criticism is easy, but art is difficult. Source: Hernández Efrén 2007 Obras Completas: Poesía, Cuento, Novela, Volym 1 Fondo de Cultura Economica 204 488 9681679016 Quien acheja por agujero, ve su duelo. English equivalent: Eavesdroppers hear no good of themselves. "People who eavesdrop on the conversations of others risk hearing unfavorable comments about themselves; used as a warning or reprimand." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA171 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 171 Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT684 I 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 238 250 Quien bien ama, tarde se olvida. English equivalent: True love never rusts. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1107 2200 0415096243 Quien en año quiere ser rico, al medio le ahorcan. English equivalent: No one gets rich quickly if he is honest. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 963 2200 0415096243 Quien bien quiere a Pedro, no hace mal a su perro. English equivalent: Love me, love my dog. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 953 2200 0415096243 Quien da luego, da dos veces. English equivalent: He gives twice, who gives in a trice. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages 38 Quien espera, desespera English equivalent: Who lives by hope will die of hunger. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 952 2200 0415096243 Quien mal siembra, mal coge. English equivalent: Sow thin, shear thin. "The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed." Charles de Montesquieu, Pensées Diverses (1879) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1158 2200 0415096243 Quien no adoba gotera, hace casa entera. English equivalent: A stitch in time saves nine. "No one needs to be told that a vast deal of labor is expended unnecessarily. This is occasioned, to a great extent, by the neglect of seasonable repairs." Porter William Henry Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA13 1845 Munroe and Company 13 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 6 Quien no oye consejo, no llega a viejo. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 675 2200 0415096243 Quien no tenga cabeza, que tenga pies. English equivalent: A forgetful head makes a weary pair of heels. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT206 2001 DeProverbio.com 978-1-4660-4673-3 206 H 1355 Quien no tiene cabeza, debe tener piernas. English equivalent: Who falls short in the head must be long in the heels. Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT412 I 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 140 149 Quien pájaro ha de tomar, no ha de ojear. English equivalent: Deal gently with the bird you mean to catch. "When people are just, they need friendship in addition." Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (c. 325 BC), Book VIII, 1155.a26 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 689 2200 0415096243 Quien pide no escoge. Translate: He who asks does not get to choose. English equivalent: Beggars must be no choosers. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 19 2200 0415096243 Quien primero llega, ese la calza. English equivalent: First come, first served. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 32 Quien quiera peces, que moje el culo. English equivalent: Birds fly not into our mouth ready roasted. "One cannot (or should not) expect to benefit without making some effort." Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 455 527 1-875943-44-7 Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 18 0415160502 Quien quiere celeste, que le cueste Translation: He who wants the heavens must pay. "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!" The Bible, Isaiah 5:12 - 21. Proverbs|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA267|year=2007|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-6673-5|pages=267–}} Source: Glazer Mark 1987 A Dictionary of Mexican American Proverbs Greenwood Publishing Group 116 347 0313253854 Quien saltar quiere lejos, debe medir la distancia. English equivalent: One must step back to take a good leap. "The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility." Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind (New York: 1954), #172 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 62 Quien tiene cola de paja no debe arrimarse al fuego. English equivalent: He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun. Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 54 176 Quien tiene tejado de vidrio, no tire piedras al de su vecino. English equivalentː People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT182 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 182 1201 Quien tiene hijos o ovejas, no le faltan quejas. English equivalent: Children are uncertain comforts but certain cares. "Children are bound to cause their parents anxiety, and may or may not also bring them joy." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA40 2 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 40 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 654 2200 0415096243 Quien cuando puede no quiere, cuando quiere no puede. English equivalent: He that will not when he may, when he will he may have nay. "Take advantage of an opportunity when it presents itself, even if you do not want or need it at the time, because it may no longer be available when you do." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA120 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 120 Kelly Walter Keating 1859 Proverbs of all nations W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) 41 238 Quien vive esperando muere desesperando. English equivalent: He that lives on hope will die fasting. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT219 2001 DeProverbio.com 978-1-4660-4673-3 219 1453 H R Roba bien quien a ladron roba. English equivalent: Set a thief to catch a thief. Mrs Mawr E B reprint 2005 Analogous Proverbs In Ten Languages Kessinger Publishing 74 120 1417964677 S Saca agua de las piedras. English equivalent: All is fish that comes to the net. "Anything that comes along is accepted and turned to advantage." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC 16 June 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 5 Caroline Ward National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11 1842 J.W. Parker 11 a similar meaning: "… when we do not upbraid circumstances or indulge in self reproach, the mind is the mind and nothing untoward can occur. Chersterton rightly says 'An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered'" Blyth R.H. 1976 Mentor 43 Games Zen Masters Play Si adelante no vas, altrasarás. English equivalent: He who does not advance goes backwards. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 445 2200 0415096243 Si cazares, no te alabes; si no cazares, no te enfades. English equivalent: If fortune favours, beware of being exalted; if fortune thunders, beware of being overwhelmed. Real Academia Española Diccionario de la lengua castellana por la Academia española https://books.google.com/books?id=orcGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA148 1852 148 Si el ciego guía al ciego, ambos caerán en la hoya. English equivalent: If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT43 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 43–44 525 Si el cielo se cae nos cojerá debajo. English equivalent: If the sky falls, we shall catch larks. Caroline Ward National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe http://books.google.com/books?id=3FEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA65 1842 J.W. Parker 65 Si el rio suena es porque piedras trae. English equivalent: "where there's smoke there's fire." Chen Berta Alicia P. Diccionario de Proverbios Y Refranes https://books.google.com/books?id=WHnWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA87 1998 978-9962-810-00-1 87 Si la montaña no va a Mahoma, Mahoma íra a la montaña Note: From an English proverb. The earliest appearance of the phrase is from Chapter 12 of the Essays of Francis Bacon, published in 1625. English equivalent: If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain. "If you cannot get what you want, you must adapt yourself to the circumstances or adopt a different approach." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA135 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 135 Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 1006 0415096243 Si no como queremos pasamos como podemos. English equivalent: Do as you may, if you can't do as you could. "He that would please all, and himself too, Undertakes what none could ever do." Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 707 2200 0415096243 Si vale la pena hacerlo, vale la pena hacerlo bien. English equivalent: If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. "Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully." Phillips Brooks, as quoted in Primary Education (1916) by Elizabeth Peabody, p. 190 William a Band Creación del valor. La clave de la gestión competitiva: Diseño e implantación de una estrategia global http://books.google.com/books?id=_FvDx085PF0C&pg=PA17 8 June 2013 1994 Ediciones Díaz de Santos 978-84-7978-174-3 17 Sin razón se queja del mar quien otra vez navega. English equivalent: He complains wrongfully at the sea that suffer shipwreck twice. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 898 2200 0415096243 Sin tentacion no hay victoria. English equivalent: Without temptation there is no victory. Ward Caroline 1842 National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe J.W. Parker 156 176 Duerme en ello, y tomarás consejo English equivalent: Take counsel of one's pillow. Kelly Walter Keating W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) Proverbs of all nations 1859 63 238 Sol que mucho madruga, poco dura. English equivalent: Early ripe, early rotten. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 758 2200 0415096243 Sólo se tiran piedras al árbol cargado de fruto. English equivalent: if you have no enemies it is a sign that fortune has forgotten you; People throw stones only at trees with fruit on them. "Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise." John Milton, Paradise Regained (1671), Book III, line 56 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1008 2200 0415096243 T Tal padre, tal hijo. English equivalent: Like father, like son. "Sons may look and behave like their fathers. This is due to inheritance and the example observed closely and daily." Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 137 527 1-875943-44-7 Todo camino vá á Rome. English equivalent: All roads lead to Rome. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 10 Toma las cosas como vienen. English equivalent: Take things as you find them. "We should not plan and then try to make circumstances fit those plans. Instead we should make plans fit the circumstances." George S. Patton, War as I Knew It (1947) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 865 2200 0415096243 U Un clavo saca a otro clavo. English equivalent: One nail drives out another. "As one nail by strength drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite forgotten." William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (1592) Diccionario Universal Francés-Español, Español-Francés: Francés-Español. A-C http://books.google.com/books?id=sML3FDlQivoC&pg=PA470 1845 Imp. de la Viuda de Jordán e Hijos 470 Una golondrina no hace verano. English equivalent: A swallow doesn't make summer. Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 1030 0415096243 Una manzana diaria aleja al médico de casa. English equivalent: An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT17 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 17 66 E V Vale más huir, que morir. English equivalent: He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day. "It is wiser to withdraw from a situation that you cannot win than to go on fighting and lose – by a strategic retreat you can return to the battle or argument with renewed energy at a later date." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA123 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 123 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 702 2200 0415096243 Visteme despacio, que tengo prisa. English equivalent: Make haste slowly. Flonta Teodor A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=hOOkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT204 2001 978-1-4660-4673-3 204 H 1342 Z Zapatero, a tus zapatos. English equivalent: Shoemaker, stick to your last or Cobbler, stick to thy last. Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 660 0415096243 See also Basque proverbs Catalan proverbs Galician proverbs Northern Catalan proverbs External Links Novasyon Proverbios Category:Proverbs by language proverb