[PW] my traditional New Year's questions

[S M Colowick]

> 5.  I've read that there is a Spanish proverb that goes, "Take what  you want
> -- and pay for it."  Is there really such a proverb?

Have you tried the Matti Kuusi multilingual proverb database,
http://lauhakan.home.cern.ch/lauhakan/int/cerpint.html? You can browse
by concept or search by keyword. One proverb that seems close to this
one is in the classification L2b_Normative rules of business and
bargaining: "Haggle well and pay all." But there's no Spanish
translation for that (nor for the Chinese proverb "Relations or no
relations, my turnips are three hundred cash per picul.")

Susie