Proverbs and old sayings, page 2013

43574 proverbs and old sayings

The smith's dog sleeps at the noise of the hammer, and wakes at the grinding of teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Tell your affairs in the market-place, and one will call them black and another white.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about magic, stores

If you want to know what a man is really like, notice how he acts when he loses money.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about money, man, contentment

See to it that you have many books and many friends -- but be sure they are good ones.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about books, good, good luck, contentment

Rather mulberry than almond. (The almond-tree is in blossom earlier than the mulberry. )

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Who gives what he has before he is dead, take a mallet and knock that fool on the head.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about heads

Smoke, a dripping roof, and a scolding wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about smoke, wife, life, man

Whilst the nurse suckles, we love her; when she is of no further use, she is forgotten.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about use, love

If someone cannot even keep his own secrets, don't count on him to keep someone else's.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers, are three hundred thieves.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about thieves

Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about love

He who has no wife, is for thrashing her daily; but he that has one, takes care of her.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife

If your wife tells you to throw yourself off a cliff, pray to God that it is a low one.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about pray, wife, god, contentment

Love is like a mousetrap: you go in when you want, but you don't get out when you like.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment, love

Do you want to see a wolf with young (i.e. an insatiable plunderer)? Marry your daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment

He who has been first a novice and then an abbot, knows what the boys do behind the altar.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Go to friends for advice, woman for love, strangers for charity and relatives for nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about charity, advice, woman, nothing, love

When a good offer comes for your daughter, don't wait till her father returns from market.

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

If you have a friend who is a doctor, make your bow and send him to the house of your enemy.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about enemies, home, house, contentment

Such awkward things will happen as going into the great square and coming back without ears.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about things