proVERBS

Translation:
Do not go to a weeing or a christening without being invited

Equivalent:
An unbidden guest knows not where to sit

Translation:
Every little bird likes its little nest

Equivalent:
Every bird likes his own nest best

Translation:
To your aunt\'s house, but not every day

Equivalent:
A constant guest is never welcome

Translation:
For every little birdie a little nestie

Equivalent:
A little bird is content with little nest

Translation:
To a bad knot a bad stamp

Equivalent:
A crabbed knot must have a crabbed wedge

Translation:
A youth without bad habits and well passed, an old age long and restful

Equivalent:
For age and want save while you may, no morning sun lasts whole day

Translation:
To a stingy father a spendthrift son

Equivalent:
After a thrifty father, a prodigal son

Translation:
To whom one does good, another good deed is engendered

Equivalent:
Good finds good

Translation:
To the shorn flock God sends a gentle wind

Equivalent:
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb

Translation:
To one rogue, another larger one

Equivalent:
Diamond cut diamond

Translation:
To the ox by the horn, the man by the word

Equivalent:
An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue

Translation:
A bridge of silver to the enemy that flees

Equivalent:
For a flying enemy make a golden bridge

Translation:
Love your neighbor, but do not get rid of your hedge

Equivalent:
Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

Translation:
A friend, old; salt pork and wine, well aged

Equivalent:
Old friends and old wine are best

Translation:
A broken friendship may be patched up but is never sound

Equivalent:
A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound

Translation:
That bird is bad which makes its nest dirty

Equivalent:
It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

Translation:
Armed to the nines

Equivalent:
Armed to the teeth

Translation:
Absence the enemy of love: by how much distant from the eyes, by that much distant from the heart

Equivalent:
Salt water and absence wash away love

Translation:
Under the sun there is enough room for all

Equivalent:
The world is a wide parish (place)

Translation:
Good beginning, half is done

Equivalent:
Well begun is half done

Translation:
Good accounts, good friends

Equivalent:
Even reckoning makes long friends

Translation:
Every pedlar praises his needles

Equivalent:
Every pedlar praises his needles

notes:
Pedlars used to go round with their stock on their back, hawking light but expensive items like needles

notes:
Pedlars used to carry smal lbut valuable things for sale in a pack on their back

Translation:
Every whichever with one like it

Equivalent:
Like will to like

Translation:
The bread eaten and the table cleared, the company undone

Equivalent:
When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

Translation:
That which makes Pedro ill makes Sancho better

Equivalent:
One man's meat is another man's poison

Translation:
When two quarrel a third makes the most of it

Equivalent:
Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it

Translation:
When the drums speak, laws are silent

Equivalent:
Where drums beat laws are silent

Translation:
When one does not want, two do not compete

Equivalent:
It takes two to make a quarrel

Translation:
When you see your neighbour\'s beard shaved, get yours soaked

Equivalent:
Look to thyself when the neighbour's house is on fire

Translation:
Rope to rope

Equivalent:
Tit for tat

Translation:
Hell is full of good intentions

Equivalent:
Hell is paved with good intentions

Translation:
May God protect me from those I trust; I will protect myself from those I do not trust

Equivalent:
God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can (will) defend myself

Translation:
To say and to do, these are usually two things

Equivalent:
Saying is one thing, and doing another

Translation:
After a thousand years water returns to its level

Equivalent:
It will be all one a hundred years hence

Translation:
After I missed you, I never really loved you

Equivalent:
The offender never pardons

Translation:
Behind the hill are people too

Equivalent:
Behind the mountains there are people to be found

Translation:
Daytime of plenty, evening of nothing

Equivalent:
Stuff today and starve tomorrow

Translation:
Where liquor goes in, wits go out

Equivalent:
When wine is in, wit is out

Translation:
Where they give them, take them

Equivalent:
Claw me, and I'll claw thee

Translation:
Two bodies and one soul

Equivalent:
Hand and glove

Translation:
Two awls do not prick each other

Equivalent:
Crows will not pick out crows' eyes

Translation:
Man is a wolf to man

Equivalent:
Man is to man a wolf

Translation:
Hatred awakens strife

Equivalent:
Hatred stirs up strife

Translation:
The worst enemy is the hidden one

Equivalent:
Better an open enemy than a false friend

Translation:
He who is victorious without danger does not wil glory

Equivalent:
Too light winning makes the prize light

Translation:
Time cures all

Equivalent:
Time is the best healer

Translation:
In each country its custom

Equivalent:
So many countries, so many customs

Translation:
It is in danger that the friend is known

Equivalent:
A friend in need is a friend indeed

Translation:
In the whole world beans are cooked

Equivalent:
The sun shines everywhere

Translation:
You will trust n your friend, when you have eaten half a bushel of salt with him

Equivalent:
Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him

Translation:
Anger without strength is weakness

Equivalent:
Anger cannot stand without a strong hand

Translation:
To understand each other like wolves from the same litter

Equivalent:
They agree like pickpockets in a fair

Translation:
Between two brothers, two witnesses and one lawyer

Equivalent:
Between two brothers, two witnesses and a notary

Translation:
That is my country where everything is more than enough for me and nothing is lacking for me

Equivalent:
Where is well with me there is my country

Translation:
The one who grinds in my mill is my friend

Equivalent:
He is my friend that grinds at my mill

Translation:
To smoke the pipe of peace

Equivalent:
To smoke the pipe of peace

Translation:
A cat with gloves does not catch a mouse

Equivalent:
A cat in gloves catches no mice

Translation:
One generation passes away, and a generation comes: but the earth remains for ever

Equivalent:
One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but the earth abides for ever

Translation:
Disputatious people always receive some scratch

Equivalent:
Quarrelling dogs come halting home

Translation:
War to the knife

Equivalent:
War to the knife

Translation:
Two dogs are not friends, having one bone between them

Equivalent:
Two dogs over one bone seldom agree

Translation:
You take care of my beard, I\'ll take care of your forelock

Equivalent:
Roll my log, and I'll roll yours

Translation:
An aggrieved man is never unmindful

Equivalent:
Injuries don't use to be written on ice

Translation:
Smoke, leaks and a garrulous wife: they drive a man from his house

Equivalent:
Three things drive a man out of his house - smoke, rain, and a scolding wife

Translation:
Anger is a short madness

Equivalent:
Anger is a short madness

Translation:
Obedience is the first duty of the soldier

Equivalent:
Obedience is the first duty of soldier

Translation:
Perseverance achieves everything

Equivalent:
Perseverance overcomes all things

Translation:
Unity makes strength

Equivalent:
Union is strength

Translation:
Bad bits of news don't run: they fly

Equivalent:
Bad news has wings

Translation:
To get out of bed with the left foot

Equivalent:
To rise on the wrong side

Translation:
That which is learnt in the cradle lasts always

Equivalent:
Whoso learneth young forgets not when he is old

Translation:
The friends of my friends are my friends

Equivalent:
The friends of my friends are also my friends

Translation:
Donkeys scratch each other

Equivalent:
One ass doth scrub another

Translation:
Gifts captivate even the gods

Equivalent:
They are welcome that bring

Translation:
A good friend is worth more than a relative or cousin

Equivalent:
A good friend is my nearest relation

Translation:
A good reputation is worth more than a golden bed

Equivalent:
A good name is better than riches

Translation:
An egg in peacetime is worth more than a henhouse in wartime

Equivalent:
Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

Translation:
A poor agreement is better than a good court case

Equivalent:
A lean compromise is better than a fat law-suit

Translation:
Late is worth more than never

Equivalent:
Better late than never

Translation:
Friends in the plaza are woth more than money in the chest

Equivalent:
A friend in the market is better than money in the chest

Translation:
Four eyes see more than two

Equivalent:
Four eyes see more than two

Translation:
To kill the goose of the golden eggs

Equivalent:
To kill the goose that lays the golden eggs

Translation:
Measure for measure

Equivalent:
Measure for measure

Translation:
The neighbour nearby is better than the far-off brother

Equivalent:
Better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off (B)

Translation:
My house and my home are worth a hundred pieces of gold

Equivalent:
East or west, home is best

Translation:
While I am in my house, I am king

Equivalent:
A man's house is his castle

Translation:
There is nothing new under the sun

Equivalent:
There is no new thing under the sun

Translation:
To swim between two waters

Equivalent:
To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

Translation:
Not even Hercules againsy two

Equivalent:
Not even Hercules could contend against two

Translation:
There is no little enemy

Equivalent:
There is no little enemy

Translation:
One must not speak ill of the dead

Equivalent:
Say nothing of the dead but what is good

Translation:
Strength without unity is not enough for a nation

Equivalent:
United we stand, divided we fall

Translation:
The absent never find themselves fairly treated

Equivalent:
The absent are always in the wrong

Translation:
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

Equivalent:
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth

Translation:
To pay in the same currency

Equivalent:
To pay one in his own coin

Translation:
For all the sun rises

Equivalent:
The sun shines upon all alike

Translation:
Dangerous is the proxinity of the powerful

Equivalent:
A great lord is a bad neighbour

Translation:
Little gifts conserve friendship

Equivalent:
Small gifts keep friendship alive

Translation:
Where one sheep goes, all make a path behind it

Equivalent:
One sheep follows another

Translation:
The one who does well by me is my good friend

Equivalent:
He loves me well that makes my belly swell

Translation:
He who goes with wolves learns to howl

Equivalent:
One must howl with the wolves

Translation:
He who is a friend of everybody is a friend of nobody

Equivalent:
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody

Translation:
He who says that which he wants, hears that which he does not want

Equivalent:
He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

Translation:
He who has a good neighbour has a good friend

Equivalent:
A good neighbour, a good morrow

Translation:
He who is born in a pigsty, there he would like to remain

Equivalent:
The hare always returns to her form

Translation:
He who doesn't have a head must have legs

Equivalent:
Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet

Translation:
He who lends to a friend buys an enemy

Equivalent:
Lend your money and lose your friend

Translation:
He who loves Beltrán loves her dog

Equivalent:
Love me, love my dog

Translation:
He who is choking/drowning grabs at a burning baldy [whatever does this mean]

Equivalent:
A drowning man will catch at a straw

Translation:
H who absented himself left his place

Equivalent:
Who loves to roam may lose his home

Translation:
He who had money had friends, but if he lost money he found himself without friendsd

Equivalent:
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; in time of adversity, not one amongst twenty

Translation:
To jump from the frying pan and land in the embers

Equivalent:
Out of the frying-pan into the fire

Translation:
According to the fabric cut your dress

Equivalent:
Cut your coat according to your cloth

Translation:
If you want peace, prepare for war

Equivalent:
If you wish for peace, be prepared for war

Translation:
They are two legs of the same bench

Equivalent:
They are finger and thumb

Translation:
They are two of a kind

Equivalent:
Both of a hair

Translation:
As welcome as flowers in May

Equivalent:
As welcome as flowers in May

Translation:
The jug goes so often to the fountain that finally it is broken

Equivalent:
The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last

Translation:
All birds with their equals

Equivalent:
Birds of a feather flock together

Translation:
Everything in this world is a farce, until the second comes

Equivalent:
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players

Translation:
All they that take up the sword will perish by the sword

Equivalent:
All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword

Translation:
A quiet and neat house, with no money one is well paid

Equivalent:
There is no place like home

Translation:
You who are [temporarily] laughing will be weeping tomorrow

Equivalent:
Laugh before breakfast, you'll cry before supper

Translation:
One nail drives out another

Equivalent:
One nail drives out another

Translation:
One favour is paid for with another

Equivalent:
One good turn deserves another

Translation:
A wolf does not bite another

Equivalent:
Dog does not eat dog

Translation:
A Greek present

Equivalent:
Gifts from enemies are dangerous

Translation:
One hand washes the other

Equivalent:
One hand washes the other

Translation:
To live like dogs and cats

Equivalent:
To agree like cats and dogs

Translation:
And they shall turn their swords into ploughshares

Equivalent:
They shall beat their swords into ploughshares