Proverbs and old sayings Spanish, page 85

1831 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

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

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

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

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

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about woman, husband

What the abbot of Bamba cannot eat he gives away for the good of his soul.

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

Tell your friend a lie -- and if he keeps it a secret, tell him the truth.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about secret, lie, truth

He who goes far from home to marry, goes either to deceive or be deceived.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home

Give me the ass that carries me in preference to the horse that throws me.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

At an ambuscade of villains a man does better with his feet than his hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about criminals, man

A woman's advice is of little value, but he who does not take it is a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about value, advice, woman

Let those pater nosters be for your own soul. (Ironical, against swearing. )

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about soul

I would rather have a donkey that can carry me than a horse that throws me.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If your roof is made of glass, don't throw stones at your neighbor's house.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

Mother, what is marrying? Spinning, bearing children, and crying, daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about children, mother