dusio

Hello to all of you; I would like to know do you have a proverb like "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" in your own language, or do you have some other proverbs for saying "do not be ungrateful when you receive a gift"

Framboise

Hello, Dusio!

I've heard this saying in several languages.
Here are some examples:

French:

• A cheval donné, on ne regarde point à la bouche (à la bride).
• A cheval donné, on ne regarde pas les dents.
• A cheval donné ne faut point regarder en la gueule.
• A cheval donné ne luy regarde en la bouche.

German:

• Einem geschenkten Gaul sieht man nicht ins Maul.
• auch: Einem geschenkten Gaul schaut man nicht ins Maul.

Latin:

• Donato non sunt ora inspicienda caballo.
• Donum quodcunque probato.
• Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.
• Non debet ora dati caute inspectare caballi.
• Placere debet quod gratis datur.
• Si quis dat mannos, ne quaere in dentibus annos.
• Si tibi do mannos, numeres ne dentibus annos. (Sprichwörter Lexikon)

Romanian:

• Calul de dar nu se caută la dinţi.

Spanish:

• A caballo regalado no le mires el diente (colmillo).
• Al que le dan, no escoge.

What is the Polish version of this saying ?

Klowj

There is a French proverb (very close to what Framboise has said) it is:

À cheval donné, on ne regarde pas la bride.

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Rihla
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dusio

It has the same meaning as in English: Darowanemu koniowi nie zagląda się w zęby ( Do not look into the mouth of a horse which was given to you )

Arehdel

In Portuguese: A cavalo dado não se olha o dente! (It's very close to the English one!)

sflor

Hi!

For this sentence "do not be ungrateful when you receive a gift" we can say "não cuspas no prato em que comeste" (literaly, do not spit on the plate that you ate).

For the real proverb you added, I would say it is "A cavalo dado não se olha o dente" which I guess it hasn´t got the same meaning of the one that I mention above...

Ciao,

sflor

Arehdel

Olá, sflor!

Penso que ambos os provérbios referidos têm basicamente o mesmo significado: não se deve criticar um presente...