Proverbs and old sayings Spanish, page 87

1831 proverbs and old sayings spanish

Health and cheerfulness make beauty; finery and cosmetics cost money and lie.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about beauty, lie, money

To be a merchant, the art consists more in getting paid than in making sales.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about art, magic

Never praise life in front of death, nor the beautiful day in front of night.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about praise, night, death, life, day

Say nothing when you are giving -- only say something when you are receiving.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about nothing

All things of this world are nothing, unless they have reference to the next.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about world, things, nothing

The winter is gone, the spring is come, a fly for those who us good have done.

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

The nightingale will run out of songs before a woman runs out of conversation.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about conversation, woman

The secret of two no further will go; the secret of three a hundred will know.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about secret

The mouse that only trusts to one poor hole, Can never be a mouse of any soul.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about soul

He whose house is tiled with glass should not throw stones at his neighbour's.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

He that is more civil than usual, either wants to cozen you or has need of you.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about need

The pearls of a bride on her wedding day are the tears that will be shed later.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about marriage, tears, day

He that marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown into the dish.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about heads, man

If the devil is going to take me, said the courtesan, let it be in a coach.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about devil

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about friendship, love

Every one wishes to bring water to his own mill, and leave his neighbour's dry.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about water

Neither serve one who has been a servant, nor beg of one who has been a beggar.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

It is better to strive with a stubborn ass than to carry the wood on one's back.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Italians talk to women, Frenchmen to the learned, and the Spaniard talks to God.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about god

What children hear their parents say by the fireside they repeat in the highway.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about parents, children