Proverbs and old sayings, page 2008

43574 proverbs and old sayings

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, death

Don't sign a paper without reading it, or drink water without seeing it.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about drinking, water

It fares ill with the house where the spinning-wheel commands the sword.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

The world is a round gulf, and he who cannot swim must go to the bottom.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about world

If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The well-dressed woman draws her husband away from another woman's door.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about woman, husband

So you tell me there are wolves on the mountain, and foxes in the valley.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

Walk until the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about blood

If you listen at a hole, you will hear ill of yourself as well as others.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

The fox does not do as much mischief in a year as it pays for in an hour.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Plough wet or dry, and you will not have to kiss your neighbour's breech.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about kiss, contentment

The tiger that has once tasted blood is never sated with the taste of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about blood

The day I did not sweep the house, there came to it one I did not expect.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house, day

If you want to thrash your wife, ask her for a drink of water in the sun.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about sun, drinking, wife, water, contentment

When the corsair promises masses and candles, it goes ill with the galley.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

He who has both money and bread, may choose with whom his daughter to wed.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about money

In hunting and in love you begin when you like and leave off when you can.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about love, contentment

God defend you from the devil, the eye of a harlot, and the turn of a die.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about devil, death, god, contentment

The woman who dresses well attracts the husband from another woman's door.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about woman, husband