Proverbs and old sayings Spanish, page 76

1831 proverbs and old sayings spanish

The worst of a lawsuit is that out of one there grow a hundred.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If you would acquire fame, let not the sun shine on you in bed.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fame, sun

To tell a woman what she cannot do is to tell her what she can.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about woman

With a staircase before you, you look for a rope to go down by.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The secret of patience is doing something else in the meantime.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about secret, patience

My life and soul (are at your service), but not my pack-saddle.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about soul, life

God will provide, but a good bundle of straw will not be amiss.

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

Put a beggar into your barn and he will make himself your heir.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If you have nothing better to do, go to bed with your own wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife, nothing

An inch in a sword, or a palm in a lance, is a great advantage.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

In large rivers one finds big fish but one may also be drowned.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fishing

Better is the smoke of my own house than the fire of another's.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about smoke, fire, fire brigade, home, house

Who has time yet waits for time, comes to a time of repentance.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about time

Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about happiness

Chastise one that is worthless, and he will presently hate you.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about hate

The woman in finery, the house in filth, but the doorway swept.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house, woman

A young woman is to an old man the horse that he rides to hell.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about hell, woman, man, old, olderness

When one wolf eats another, thee is nothing to eat in the wood.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about nothing

He that has a good harvest must be content with a few thistles.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about good, good luck

Little birds that can sing and won't sing must be made to sing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish