Spanish Proverbs (1985 Proverbs)
- We are both carriers, and shall meet on the road.
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- Truth and oil always come to the surface.
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- To lie and eat fish demand a lot of skill.
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- Tie up the hen that eats at your place and lays eggs elsewhere.
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- They who don't keep goats and yet sell kids, where do they get them?
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- There is no pot so ugly but finds its cover.
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- There are three "too much" and three "too little" that can bring a fool down: too much spending and too little money; too much talking and too little knowledge; and too much boasting and too little earnings.
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- The wise man does not hang his knowledge on a hook.
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- The threshold says nothing but what it hears of the hinge.
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- The secret in swimming is to know how to take care of your clothes.
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- The one who rings the fire bell is safe.
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- The most cautious passes for the most chaste.
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- The lion's not half so fierce as he's painted.
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- The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.
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- The fox is knowing, but more knowing he who catches him.
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- The earth produces all things and receives all again.
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- The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.
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- The best feed of a horse is his master's eye.
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- Tell your friend your secret, and he will set his foot on your neck.
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- Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
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- Smoke, a dripping roof, and a scolding wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life.
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- Seven brothers in a council make wrong right.
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- Poverty does not destroy virtue, nor does wealth bestow it.
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- Patience begins with tears and ends with a smile.
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- One ass among many monkeys is grinned at by all.
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- Not all things have to be scrutinized, nor all friends tested, not all enemies exposed and denounced.
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- Never advise a man to go to the wars, or to marry.
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- Miguel, Miguel, you have no bees, and yet sell honey.
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- Women, melons, and cheese are bought by the weight.
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- Whoever falls sick of folly, is long in getting cured.
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- Whither goest thou, Misfortune? To where there is more.
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- Where the sea goes let the sands go.
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- When you are an anvil, bear; when you are a hammer, strike.
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- When the steed is stolen, you shut the stable door.
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- When our enemy flies, build him a golden bridge.
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- Women and wine rid a man of his common sense.
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- Who stumbles without falling makes a bigger step.
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- Whilst we drink, prank ourselves, with wenches daily, Old age upon's at unawares doth sally.
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- Where the wolf gets one lamb he looks for another.
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- When we think to catch we are sometimes caught.
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- When the Spaniard sings he is either stupid or without money.
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- When our daughter is married sons-in-law are plenty.
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- Women and melons are at their best when they are really ripe.
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- Who preaches in the desert loses his sermon.
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- Whilst the tall maid is stooping, the little one sweeps the house.
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- Where the river is deepest it makes the least noise.
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- When we ask a favour, we say, Madam; when we obtain it, what we please.
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- When the river makes no noise, it is either dried up or much swollen.
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- When one wolf eats another, thee is nothing to eat in the wood.
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- Your cracked jug seems better to me than my sound one.
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- Women and calendars are good only for a year.
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- Who lends recovers not; or if he recovers, recovers not all; or if not all, not much; of if much, a mortal enemy.
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- Whilst the nurse suckles, we love her; when she is of no further use, she is forgotten.
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- Where the heart is past hope, the face is past shame.
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- When war begins the devil makes hell bigger.
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- When the prior plays cards, what will the monks do?
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- When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her.
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- You will not be loved if you care for none but yourself.
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- Woe to the mule that sees not her master.
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- Who is your enemy? A man of your own trade.
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- Whether you ignore a pig, or worship that pig from afar, to the pig it's all the same.
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- Where the goat leaps, leaps that which sucks her.
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- When two friends dip into their purse, one laughs, the other cries.
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- When the ox falls, there are many that will help to kill him.
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- When love is not madness, it is not love.
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- You used to be a baker, though now you wear gloves.
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- Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.
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- Who is well seated, let him not budge.
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- Whether you boil snow or pound it you can have but water of it.
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- Where MacGregor sits at the head of the table.
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- When two are in love, only one needs to eat.
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- When the old dog barks, he gives counsel.
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- When it rains in February, it will be temperate all the year.
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- You surrender your freedom where you deposit your secret.
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- With money you would not know yourself, without money nobody would know you.
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- Who is to carry the cat to the water?
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- Whether the pitcher strike the stone, or the stone the pitcher, woe be to the pitcher.
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- Where God sends babbies he sends penny loaves.
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- When three people call you an ass, put on a bridle.
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- When the iron is hot, then is the time to strike.
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