Galician proverbs
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[edit] A
- A capar apréndese cortando collons (to castrate -pigs- is learnt by cutting balls)
- Aproveitar o farelo é tirar a fariña (to use the bran is to waist the flour)
- A quen Deus non dá fillos, o demo cobre de sobriños (To whom god doesn't give children, the devil saturates him of nephews)
[edit] C
- Cabalo grande, ande ou non ande (may the horse be big, whether it walks or not)
- Cando hai fame non hai pan duro (When one is hungry, there's no hard bread)
- Cando o frade da a ovella, colle a corda e vai por ela. (When the priest offers you a lamb, grab a leash and go get it)
- Can que moito lambe saca o sangue (the dog that licks too much will draw blood)
- Can que moito ladra non morde (The dog that barks a lot won't bite)
- Comer e cozar todo é comezar. (To eat and to itch comes after the beginning)
[edit] D
- Deus dá codias a quen non tén dentes. (God gives crust to those who dont have teeth)
[edit] E
- En abril sai o cuco do cubil (In April the cuckoo comes out of its hole)
- En maio ainda a vella garda o tallo (In May still the old lady wears the winter clothes)
- Entre pau e pau descansa o lombo (In between strokes you can give your back a rest)
- Estar na horta e non ver as berzas (Being in the vegetable garden and not seeing the cabbage - You cannot see it even if it's in front of you)
[edit] M
- Meu dito meu feito (Just said, just done)
- Morra o gato, morra farto. (Once the cat has to die, let it die full)
- Mais vale sabela que porfiala (It's better to know a matter than to learn trying it again and again)
[edit] N
- Na casa do ferreiro, coitelo de pau. (Wooden knife at blacksmith's home)
- Non se collen as troitas coas pernas enxoitas. (No trouts are caught with dry legs)
- Nunca choveu que non escampara. (It never rained without clearing up afterwards)
[edit] O
- Onde hai fume houbo lume. (where there is smoke, there was fire)
- Ovella que berra, bocado que perde (Sheep that bleats, mouthful that losses)
- O falar non ten cancelas. (Talking has no gates: saying has no brake)
- O vrau pasou e mallou quen mallou. (Summer pasted and who harvested, harvested)
[edit] P
- Pór o carro diante dos bois. (put the cart at the front of the oxen)
[edit] Q
- Quen non chora non mama. (He who doesn't cry won't lactate, by means if you never ask for help probably you will never receive it.
- Quen nunca igrexa veu, á porta dun forno fai a reverencia (He who never saw a church, at the door of an oven makes the reverence)
- Quen nunca tivo un porco e agora tén un porquiño, anda sempre detrais del, chamandolle "quino, quino". (He who never had a pig, and now has a piglet (?), always walks behind it, calling to it "quino, quino")
[edit] S
- Sabe mais o demo por vello que por demo (The devil knows more because he is old, than because he is the devil)
- Sempre corre o ouro pro tesouro. (Translation: Always the gold runs to the treasure)
- Se non fose polo rabo, empreñaba a burra.
- Se unha muller che di que te tires pola ventá, o que tes que facer é percurar a que esteña mais baixa (if the wife tells you to jump over a window, all you can do is to search for the lowest one)
[edit] U
- Unha sebe, 3 anos; un can, 3 sebes; un cabalo 3 cans, un home 3 cabalos (duration of things: a hedge 3 years, a dog 3 hedges, a horse 3 dogs, a man 3 horses)
[edit] V
- Visteme amodo que teño presa (dress me slowly because I'm in a hurry: too fast too bad)
[edit] X
- Xente nova e leña verde, todo é fume. (Young people and green firewood, all is smoke)
