Proverbs and old sayings, page 1999

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Moses (i.e. a Jew) does not play because he has not the means.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If you don't have what it takes you won't get on in the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about world, contentment

Mother, marry me, marry me, or the gull will fly away with me.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about mother

Of all pains, the greatest pain, is to love, but love in vain.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about pain, love

Before the time, great courage; when at the point, great fear.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about courage, fear, time

It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another's.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house, bad luck, bad

Before you marry, beware, for it is a knot difficult to untie.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

However bright the sun may shine, leave not you cloak at home.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about sun, home, contentment

However foul it be, never say, Of this water I will not drink.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about drinking, water

If lying were a capital crime, the hangman would work overtime.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about crime, criminals, lie, work

In the presence of your neighbor don't praise your wife or his.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about praise, wife

The worst of a lawsuit is that out of one there grow a hundred.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If you would acquire fame, let not the sun shine on you in bed.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fame, sun, contentment

To tell a woman what she cannot do is to tell her what she can.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about woman

With a staircase before you, you look for a rope to go down by.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

The secret of patience is doing something else in the meantime.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about secret, patience

My life and soul (are at your service), but not my pack-saddle.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about soul, life

God will provide, but a good bundle of straw will not be amiss.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about god, good, good luck

Put a beggar into your barn and he will make himself your heir.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If you have nothing better to do, go to bed with your own wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife, nothing, contentment