As for friars, live with them, eat with them, and walk with them; then sell them as they do themselves.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about commerce
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I never was satisfied with I will, I will. One take this is better than two I will give you.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about contentment
Go not with every ailment to the doctor, with every plea to the lawyer, or with every thirst to the can.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
He who was first an acolyte, and afterwards an abbot or curate, knows what the boys do behind the altar.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
He will never worship well the image on the altar who knew it when it was a trunk of wood in the garden.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about garden
A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man
He who has a good looking wife, a castle on the river, or a vineyard on the roadside is never without war.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about war, wife, good, good luck
He who has a handsome wife, a castle on the frontier, or a vineyard on the roadside, is never without war.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about war, wife
Spanish is the language of lovers, Italian is for the singer, French for diplomats, and German for horses.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about language
Who lends recovers not; or if he recovers, recovers not all; or if not all, not much; of if much, a mortal enemy.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about enemies
Let the salad-maker be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a statesman for salt, and a madman for tossing.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
A peasant will stand on the top of a hill for a very long time with his mouth open before a roast duck will fly in.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about peasantry, time
If your enemy is up to his waist in water, give him your hand; if the water reaches his shoulders, stand on his head.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about water, enemies, heads
He who at twenty understands nothing, at thirty knows nothing, and at forty has nothing, will lead a wretched old age.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about nothing, olderness, age, old
If it is good then the deed is more important than the intention; if it's bad then the intention is worse than the deed.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about intention, bad luck, bad, good, good luck
If the pitcher knocks against a stone, woe to the pitcher; and if the stone knocks against the pitcher, woe to the pitcher.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
Whether it be so or not, husband, put on your hood. (He had told her there was a new law that every man with horns should wear a hood. )
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about husband, law, man
He that is not gallant at twenty, strong at thirty, rich at forty, or experienced at fifty, will never be gallant, strong, rich, or prudent.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about prudence, wealth
As long as I was a daughter-in-law I never had a good mother-in-law, and as long as I was a mother-in-law I never had a good daughter-in-law.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about law, mother, good, good luck
At twenty a man will be a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy a monkey, and at eighty nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about nothing, man
