[PW] my traditional New Year's questions

[Charles Early]

I remember the version: "Take what you want and pay for it, says 
God".  Most of the hits for that phrase in Google call it a Spanish 
proverb, but it's also attributed to Zorba the Greek and to Agatha 
Christie's The Mousetrap (where it's quoted as a Spanish proverb).

At 02:58 PM 2/5/2007, you wrote:
> > 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
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