Proverbs and old sayings Spanish, page 89

1831 proverbs and old sayings spanish

Spilled wine is a sign of happiness, but break the bed and all will have long faces.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about happiness, wine

They took away the mirror from me because I was ugly, and gave it to the blind woman.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about blind, woman

If you have a loitering servant, set his dinner before him and send him on an errand.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The old for want of ability, and the young for want of knowledge, let things be lost.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about ability, knowledge, things, old, olderness

Mary Busybody never wants a bad day, and Mary Drone has God to give and bring to her.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about bad luck, god, day, bad

Friday pretexts for not fasting (meaning pleas of indisposition for not eating fish. )

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fasting

The drunkard and the glutton come to poverty, and drowsiness clothes a man with rags.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about clothes, poverty, man

Whether you ignore a pig, or worship that pig from afar, to the pig it's all the same.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all, A sting, and honey, and a body small.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about body, things

The smith's dog sleeps at the noise of the hammer, and wakes at the grinding of teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Tell your affairs in the market-place, and one will call them black and another white.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about magic

If you want to know what a man is really like, notice how he acts when he loses money.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about money, man

See to it that you have many books and many friends -- but be sure they are good ones.

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

Rather mulberry than almond. (The almond-tree is in blossom earlier than the mulberry. )

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Who gives what he has before he is dead, take a mallet and knock that fool on the head.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about heads

Smoke, a dripping roof, and a scolding wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about smoke, wife, life, man

Whilst the nurse suckles, we love her; when she is of no further use, she is forgotten.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about use, love

If someone cannot even keep his own secrets, don't count on him to keep someone else's.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers, are three hundred thieves.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about thieves

Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about love