Proverbs and old sayings, page 2003

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Do not stuff your servant with bread, and he won't ask for cheese.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The more you flatter a fool, the more seriously he plays his game.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about games

Drink nothing with out seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about nothing, drinking

The old wife, if she does not serve for a pot, serves for a cover.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife, old, olderness

Invite your son-in-law to a fowl, and he will take away the lemon.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about law

He that trusts a faithless friend, has a good witness against him.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about good, good luck

The hunchback does not see his own hump, but sees his companion's.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

There wasn't a sound to be heard. You could have heard a pin drop.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Be a custom good or bad, a peasant will have it continue in force.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about peasantry, force, police, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

From snow, whether baked or boiled, you will get nothing but water.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about nothing, water

Kill and thou wilt be killed, and he will be killed who kills thee.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If you go away, you can't expect people to keep your place for you.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about people

The secret in swimming is to know how to take care of your clothes.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about clothes, secret

Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about sadness, old, olderness

Treat the small in the way you would want to be treated by the big.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Talking about bulls is not the same thing as being in the bullring.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about talking, being, things

There is no worse apprentice than the one who doesn't want to know.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Seven is company, and nine confusion. (Alluding to a dinner party. )

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about confusion, companies

When two friends dip into their purse, one laughs, the other cries.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The horse may wish to do one thing, but he who saddles him another.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wish, things