Spanish Proverbs (1985 Proverbs)
- If you are not good for yourself, how can you be good for others?
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- If the doctor is fasting it is bad for the priest.
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- I thought I had made the sign of the cross -- and I hurt my eye.
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- I broke my leg, perhaps for my good.
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- Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
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- He who tells his own secret will hardly keep another's.
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- He who pledges or promises runs in debt.
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- He who lives in hopes, breakfasts ill and sups worse.
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- He who has to deal with a blockhead has need of much brains.
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- He who has a tongue goes to Rome.
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- He who eats and puts by, has sufficient for two meals.
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- He who catches one fish is a fisherman.
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- He that minds his business at home, will not be accused of taking part in the fray.
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- He is out of danger who rings the alarm-bell.
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- Happy the house in which there is no shaven crown.
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- God is a good worker but He loves to be helped.
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- Go in God's name, for he takes a loaf of mine.
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- For whom sword and courage are not enough, corslet and lance will not be enough.
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- Feed the raven and he'll peck out your eyes.
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- Every man should support himself, and not hang upon another.
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- Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.
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- Do not tell your secrets behind a wall or a hedge.
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- Confide in a woman and a magpie if you want something to be broadcast.
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- Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.
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- Better lose a supper than have a hundred physicians.
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- Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys you with his beak.
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- An oak is not felled at one stroke.
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- According to the custom of Aragon, good service, bad guerdon.
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- A sparrow in the hand is better than a bustard on the wing.
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- Many kiss hands they would fain see chopped off.
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- Limit your desires and you will improve your health.
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- Let the guts be full, for it is they that carry the legs.
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- Kill and thou wilt be killed, and he will be killed who kills thee.
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- It is not the same thing to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring.
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- It is better to lose than lose more.
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- In the face of love and death, courage is useless.
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- If your enemy is up to his waist in water, give him your hand; if the water reaches his shoulders, stand on his head.
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- If you want to know the value of money, go and borrow some.
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- If two doctors visit a sick man, the sexton rings the bells.
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- If the devil is going to take me, said the courtesan, "let it be in a coach."
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- I stubborn and you stubborn, who is to carry the load?
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- I am neither at the ford nor the bridge.
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- Health and cheerfulness make beauty; finery and cosmetics cost money and lie.
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- He who talks to a mule is one himself.
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- He who plants the lettuce doesn't always eat the salad.
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- He who lives a long life must pass through much evil.
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- He who has shipped the devil, must carry him over the sound.
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- He who has a son grown up should not call another a thief.
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- He who eats a partridge in his youth will only be left with feathers in his old age.
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- He who buys and sells does not feel what he spends.
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- He that makes one basket can make a hundred.
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- He is my friend who grinds at my mill.
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- Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
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- God grant, dear wife, that this son be ours.
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- Give me the ass that carries me in preference to the horse that throws me.
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- For whom does the blind man's wife adorn herself?
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- Fear and love never eat from the same plate.
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- Every man is the son of his own works.
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- Don't send away your cat for being a thief.
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- Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor.
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- Compare your griefs with those of other men and they will seem less.
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- Blessed are the dead that the rain rains on.
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- Better joy in a cottage than sorrow in a palace.
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- At twenty a man will be a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy a monkey, and at eighty nothing.
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- An inch in a sword, or a palm in a lance, is a great advantage.
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- Abbot of Carcuela, you eat up the pot and ask for the pipkin.
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- A son-in-law and a pig will show you the way only once.
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- Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
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- Like Banbury tinkers that in mending one hole make three.
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- Let not the tongue utter what the head must pay for.
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- Keeping a woman to her word is like trying to hold an eel by its tail.
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- It is not the load but the overload that kills.
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- It is better to leap over the ditch than trust to the pleadings of good men.
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- In the bagpiper's house they are all dancers.
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- If you would make a thief honest, trust him.
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- If you want to know secrets, seek for them in trouble or in pleasure.
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- If thy heart fail thee, why then climb at all?
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- If the devil is going to disguise himself, it will be as a monk or a lawyer.
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- I say it to you, daughter; hear it, daughter-in-law.
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- I am like you and you like me. the devil united us.
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