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Spanish Proverbs
(Provisional translations; please send
suggestions)
Crea fama y acuéstate a dormir.
Once you build a bad/good reputation it stays forever.
A Dios rogando y con el mazo dando.
One that portrays to be good and his intention are bad.
Arbol que crece torcido jamás su tronco endereza.
A tree that grows crooked will never straighten its trunk.
Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres.
Tell me who you hang out with and I'll tell you who you are.
El que a hierro mata a hierro muere.
One that does bad will pay before he/she dies the same way.
[He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.]
No dejes para mañana lo que puedas hacer hoy.
Don't postpone until tomorrow what you can do today.
Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente.
What the eyes do not see the heart does not feel.
[Out of sight, out of mind.]
Contributed by Rubia76@aol.com
28 October 1999
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