You have debts, and make debts still; if you've not lied, lie you will.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about lie
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1831 proverbs and old sayings spanish
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, word
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
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
The fox does not do as much mischief in a year as it pays for in an hour.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
