No hiere Dios con dos manos. God does not smite with both hands.
No inventó la polvera. He did not invent gunpowder.
No juega Mosé, porque no tiene que. Moses (i. e. a Jew) does not play because he has not the means.
No lo quiero, no lo quiero, mas échadme lo en la capilla. I don’t want it, I don’t want it, but put it into my hood.
No mata la carga sino la sobrecarga. It is not the load but the overload that kills.
No me digas oliva hasta que me veas cogida. Call me not olive till you see me gathered.
No me llames bien hadada hasta que me veas enterrada. Call me not fortunate till you see me buried.
No piden todos para un santo. All do not beg for one saint.
No quiebra delgado, sino gordo y mal hilado. It is not the fine, but the coarse and ill-spun that breaks.