Though my father-in-law is a good man, I do not like a dog with a bell.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about law, good, good luck, man
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Let them whip me in the market-place, provided it be not known at home.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home
Let there be food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about food, home, house
Nothing is lost on a journey by stopping to pray or to feed your horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about pray, nothing
Changing one's mind is more often a sign of prudence than of ignorance.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about prudence, ignorance, mind
There is nothing like deprivation to generate thanks for small mercies.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about nothing
Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about children
Fast as the hare runs, the greyhound outruns her, since he catches her.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fasting
You have debts, and make debts still; if you've not lied, lie you will.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about lie
When we ask a favour, we say, Madam; when we obtain it, what we please.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
Nurse, you are mistress whilst the child sucks, and after that nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about children, nothing
From a praying young man, and a fasting old man, God preserve my cloak.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fasting, god, man, old, olderness
When the summer is winter, and the winter is summer, it is a sorry year.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
To find oneself in tight breeches. (Ill at ease--we say in tight boots. )
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
Poverty is even worse if you have to sleep on the edge of a crowded bed.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about poverty, sleep
Were you at the wedding, Molly? No, mother, but the bride was very fine.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about marriage, mother
Words will not do for my aunt, for she does not put faith even in deeds.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about deeds, faith
The busy man is troubled with but one devil, the idle man by a thousand.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about devil, man
Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about eyes, magic, love
Don't sign a paper without reading it, or drink water without seeing it.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about drinking, water
