Galician proverbs

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - L - M - N - Ñ - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - X - Z

A

• A capar aprende-se cortando collons (to castrate -pigs- is learnt by cutting balls)

• Aproveitar o farelo e tirar a fariña (to use the bran and to reject 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)

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 hungry, no hard bread)

• Cando o frade da a ovella, colle a corda e vai por ela.

• Can que moito lambe saca o sangue

• Comer e cozar todo é comezar. (To eat and to itch comes after the beggining)

D

• Deus dá codias a quen non tén dentes. (God gives crust to those who dont have teeth)

E

• En abril sai o cuco do cubil

• En maio ainda a vella garda o tallo

• Entre pau e pau descansa o lombo

• Estar na horta e non ver as berzas

M

• Meu dito meu feito (Just said, just done)

• Morra o gato, morra farto. (Once the cat has to die, let it die full)

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. (Never it rained without clearing up afterwards)

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 tén cancelas. (Statings have no gates: saying has no brake)

• O vrau pasou e mallou quen mallou. (Summer past and who harvested, harvested)

P

• Pór o carro diante dos bois. (put the cart at the front of the oxen)

Q

• Quen non chora non mama. (Who doesn't cry doesn't nurse (i.e. get milk by sucking on a breast))

• Quen nunca igrexa veu, á porta dun forno fai a reverencia (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")

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)

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)

V

• Visteme amodo que teño presa(dress me slowly because I'm in a hurry: too fast too bad)

X

• Xente nova e leña verde, todo é fume. (Young people and green firewood, all is smoke)