Catalan proverbs Quotes
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“No hi ha gloria sense enveja.
• Literally: There is no glory without envy.”
“Ningú pot servir a dos senyors.
• Literally: Nobody can serve two masters.”
“Un clau en treu un altre.
• English equivalent: One nail drives out another.”
“La persevança tot ho alcança.
• Literally: Perseverance achieves everything.”
“És pitjor el remei que la malaltia.
• Literally: The remedy is worse than the disease.”
“Qui estima el gos, estim el seu amo.
• Literally: He who loves the dog, loves its master.”
“El temps és or.
• Literally: Time is gold.
• English equivalent: Time is money.”
“Molts componedros descomposen la nuvida.
• English equivalent: A public hall is never swept.”
“Entrar per una orella i sortir per l'altre.
• Literally: To go in one ear and out the other.”
“Uns alcen la caça i altres la maten.
• Literally: Some people raise the hunt and others kill it.”
“Barber piadòs encangrena la plaga.
• Literally: A merciful barber-surgeon gives the wound gangrene.”
“S'atrapa abans a un mentider que a un coix.
• Literally: You'll catch a liar before you'll catch a cripple.”
“Ratolí que no més coneix un forat, està atrapat.
• Literally: A mouse that only knows one hole is caught.”
“Lo mentider no es cregud de las veritats.
• English equivalent: A liar is not believed when he tells the truth.”
“Qui pren l'ágila per la cua i la dóna per la palabre, pot dir queres no tè.
• Meaning: Don't take a man by his word.”
“Cada cabell fa sa ombra.
• Literally: Every hair makes its shadow.
• English equivalent: There is no little enemy.”