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| Spanish Proverb - T
Take away the motive, and the sin is taken away.Take heed of an ox before. an ass behind, and a monk on all sides.Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.Take the middle of the way and thou wilt not fall.Take what you want, then pay for it.Taking out and not putting in soon reaches the bottom.Talk as you go, husband, to the gallows.Talk little and well, and you will be looked upon as somebody.Talk of sporting, and buy game in the market.Talking is easy, action difficult.Tell a lie and find the truth.Tell a lie, and you will bring out the truth.Tell your own story first.That which covers thee discovers thee.That which is cheap is dear.The ass dead, the barley at his tail.The ass knows well in whose face be brays.The ass of many owners is food for wolves.The bacon of paradise for the married man that does not repent.The bad barber leaves neither hair nor skin.The bad man always suspects knavery.The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor.The beast that goes well is never without some one to try his paces.The beginning of health is to know the disease.The best cast at dice is not to play.The best cloth has uneven threads.The best cook drops a whole tomato.The best feed of a horse is his master's eye.The bowels support the heart, and not the heart the bowels.The busy fly is in every man's dish.The busy man is troubled with but one devil, the idle man by a thousand.The cask full, the mother-in-law drunk.The cask smells of the wine it contains.The cat always leaves her mark upon her friend.The cat is friendly, but scratches.The church, the sea, or the royal household, for whoever would thrive.The cross on his breast, and the devil in his acts.The day I did not make my toilette, there came to my house one I did not expect.The day I did not sweep the house, there came to it one I did not expect.The day you marry 'tis either kill or cure.The dearest child of all is the dead one.The deceived sheep that went for wool and came back shorn.The devil gets into the belfry by the vicar's skirts.The devil is so fond of his son that he put out his eye.The diligent spinner has a large shift.The dog that has its bitch in town never barks well.The dress does not make the friar.The earth hides as it takes, the physician's mistakes.The envious man's face grows sharp and his eyes big.The evil which issues from thy mouth falls into thy bosom.The father of a saint, the son of a sinner.The fault is as great as he that commits it.The fertile field becomes sterile without rest.The fierce ox becomes tame on strange ground.The fire well knows whose cloak burns.The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.The first wife is a broom, and the second a lady.The fist loss is the best.The full-fed cow makes company of her tail.The gallows takes its own.The gardener's dog, neither full nor hungry.The gardener's feet do no harm to the garden.The gentle lamb sucks any ewe as well as its mother; the surly lamb sucks neither its own nor another.The girl as she is taught, the flax as it is wrought.The glass-dealer's horses fell out, and he looked on to see which kicked hardest.The goat can't well cover herself with her tail.The golden ass passes everywhere.The gossips fall out and tell each other truths.The green burns for the dry, and the righteous pay for sinners.The gutter by dropping wears the stone.The hunchback does not see his own hump, but sees his companion's.The Jew ruins himself with passovers, the Moor with wedding feasts, and the Christian with lawsuits.The keys at the girdle, the dog in the larder.The king goes as far as he can, not so far as he would.The king likes the treachery, but not the traitor.The kite's malady, its wings broken and its beak sound.The land a man knows is his mother.The mill gains by gong, and not by standing still.The month loses its own, but not the year.The more a woman admires her face, the more she ruins her house.The more one has the more one wants.The more you court a clown the statelier he grows.The most cautious passes for the most chaste.The Mother of God appears to fools.The mother reckons well, but the child reckons better.The mother who spoils her child, fattens a serpent.The mother-in-law must be entreated, and the pot must be let stand.The mouse that knows but one hole is soon caught by the cat.The mouth and the purse, shut.The mouth that says yes says no.The ox comes to the yoke at the call of his feeder.The ox spoke and said "Moo."The ox that butted me tossed me into a good place.The ox without a bell is soon lost.The paunch warm, the foot sleepy.The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it leaves its handle or its mouth.The poor man has his crop destroyed by hail every year.The poor-houses are filled with the honestest people.The rat that has but one hole is soon caught.The rat that knows but one hole is soon caught by the cat.The remedy for love is--land between.The wedding feast is not made with mushrooms only.The well-bred hound, if he does not hunt to-day will hunt to-morrow.The well-dressed woman draws her husband away from another woman's door.There are more threatened than hurt.There are no birds in last year's nest.There is no worse apprentice than the one who doesn't want to know.There is not a pair of ears for every Jew.There is some distance between Peter and Peter.There would be no ill word if it were not ill taken.There's no argument like that of the stick.There's no making a good cloak of bad cloth.Though my father-in-law is a good man, I do not like a dog with a bell.Though the speaker be a fool, let the hearer be wise.Though the sun shines, leave not your cloak at home.Though you are a prudent old man, do not despise counsel.Though you see me with this coat, I have another up the mountain.To be like a bunch of nettles.To be like a leek, have a grey head and the rest green.To be like a tailor's pattern-book.To break the constable's head, and take refuge with the sheriff.To commit the sheep to the care of the wolf.To cry up wine, and sell vinegar.To discover truth by telling a falsehood.To draw the foot out of the mire.To draw the snake out of the hole with another's hand.To fawn with the tail, and bite with the mouth.To fetch water after the house is burned.To get out of one muck into another.To go for wool and come back shorn.To go rabbit catching with a dead ferret.To grease the fat pig's tail.To have hairs on his heart. (Hard-hearted.)To have it written on his forehead.To have one's brains in one's heels.To have the belly up to one's mouth.To have the foot in two shoes.To hit the nail on the head.To jump out of the frying-pan and fall into the fire.To keep one upon hot coals.To kick against the pricks.To look for five feet in a cat.To lose one eye that you may deprive another of two.To make a cat's paw of one.To parade the gallows before the town.To pray to the saint until the danger is past.To put in a needle and take out a bar.To quench fire with fire.To reckon without the hostess.To save for old age, earning a maravedi and drinking three.To see the sky through a funnel.To sell honey to the beekeeper.To send one arrow after another.To shiver at work, and sweat at meals.To sing out of tune and persist in it.To stop the hole after the mischief is done.To swallow a camel, and strain at a gnat.To swim and swim more, and be drowned on shore.To take one foot out the mire and put the other into it.To take out a burning coal with another's hand.To take to your heels.To take Villadiego's boots.To the bold man fortune gives her hand.To the good listener, half a word is enough.To the grateful man give more than he asks.To thrash one's jacket.To throw the stone and conceal the hand.To throw up a feather in the air, and see where it falls.To undo crosses in a straw loft (i.e. to part all the straws that they may not lie crosswise; to be over nice).To work for the bishop.To your son give a good name and a trade.Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year. Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year.Too much breaks the bag.Tripe broth, you make much of yourself.Trouts are not caught with dry breeches.True love suffers no concealment.Trust in God upon good security.Trust not your gossip to a priest who has been a friar.Trust not your money to one whose eyes are bent on the ground.Truth, like oil, always comes to the surface.Two birds of prey do not keep each other company. |
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