Proverbs and old sayings, page 2004

43574 proverbs and old sayings

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

The mother-in-law must be entreated, and the pot must be let stand.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about law, mother

Pay me back what you owe me; we'll talk later about what I owe you.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

It is not the same thing to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about things

Memory is everyone's friend -- it leaves you when you need it most.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about memory, need, contentment

He that would have a beautiful wife should choose her on a Saturday.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife

He who has a bad wife can expect no happiness that can be so called.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about happiness, wife, bad luck, bad

They who don't keep goats and yet sell kids, where do they get them?

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about commerce

Of what you see, believe very little, of what you are told, nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about faith, nothing, contentment

Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about trap

There is no pleasure but palls, and the more so if it costs nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about pleasure, nothing

Don't worry if people call you ordinary -- only if you are ordinary.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about worry, people, contentment

The beast that goes well is never without some one to try his paces.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The wise knows that he does not know; the ignoramus thinks he knows.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Discover not your silent money (i.e. your hoarded money) to anybody.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about money

Marriage is a little bit like buying melons, you need a little luck.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about marriage, bad luck, good luck, need, contentment

The obscure we see eventually. The completely apparent takes longer.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Talking about bulls is altogether different from being in the arena.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about talking, being