Proverbs and old sayings, page 1987

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Your cracked jug seems better to me than my sound one.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A good word extinguishes more than a pailful of water.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about word, water, good, good luck

Michael is quits; he lost a ducat and gained a rabbit.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

When they give you the calf, be ready with the halter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

One stroke on the nail and a hundred on the horseshoe.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Communism is a cow of many; well milked and badly fed.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about communism

Suppers have killed more than doctors have ever cured.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

There is never a great dunghill at a sportsman's door.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Cheat me with the price, but not with the goods I buy.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about commerce

Renounce the devil, and thou shalt wear a shabby coat.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about devil

He who eats and puts by, has sufficient for two meals.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The mother reckons well, but the child reckons better.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about children, mother

He that stirs honey will have some of it stick to him.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

What does not happen in a year may happen in a moment.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about moment

God grant me to contend with those that understand me.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about god

For the want of worthy men they made my father alcade.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about things

All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

When a man is not used to breeches the seams gall him.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

Be merry, Shrovetide, for to-morrow thou wilt be ashes.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish