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| Spanish Proverb - A
A bad compromise is better than a successful suit.A bad labour, and a daughter after all.A bad man's gift is like his master.A bad thing never dies.A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills.A barking dog was never a good biter.A bespattered hog tries to bespatter another.A blind man's stroke, which raises a dust from beneath water.A blow from a frying-pan, if it does not hurt, smuts.A boy's love is water in a sieve.A buffeting threatened is never well given.A buxom widow must be married, buried, or cloistered.A child of a year old sucks milk from the heel.A covetous abbot for one offering loses a hundred.A cracked bell will never be sound.A crazy vessel never falls from the hand.A daily guest is a thief in the kitchen.A determined heart will not be counselled.A devotee's face, and a cat's claws.A fast day is the eve of a feast day.A father's love, for all other is air.A fifth wheel to a cart is but an encumbrance.A fool sometimes gives good counsel.A fool, if he holds his tongue, passes for wise.A fool, unless he know Latin, is never a great fool.A fortress on its guard is not surprised.A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.A full belly is neither good for flight, nor for fighting.A girl draws more than a rope.A good heart breaks bad fortune.A good life defers wrinkles.A good name covers theft.A good paymaster is keeper of other men's purses.A good paymaster needs no security.A good thing lost is a good thing valued.A good word extinguishes more than a pailful of water.A grain does not fill a sieve, but it helps its fellow.A great lance-thrust to a dead Moor.A great leap gives a great shake.A great man's entreaty is a command.A hair casts its shadow on the ground.A handful of motherwit is worth a bushel of learning.A handsome man is not quite poor.A handsome woman is either silly or vain.A house filled with guests is eaten up and ill spoken of.A house ready built and a vineyard ready planted.A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers, are three hundred thieves.A hundred years hence we shall all be bald.A hungry belly listens to no one.A hungry man discovers more than a hundred lawyers.A husband with one eye rather than with a son.A kitchen-dog is never a good rabbit-hunter.A lame goat will not sleep by day.A lawsuit for a maravedi consumes a real's worth of paper.A lazy ox is little the better for the goad.A little gall embitters much honey.A little loss frightens, a great one tames.A man forewarned is as good as two.A man may hap to bring home with him what makes him weep.A man that has had his fill is no eater.A man that is lean, not from hunger, is harder than brass.A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground.A measly hog infects the whole sty.A melon and a woman are hard to know.A mewing cat is never a good mouser.A monkey remains a monkey, though dressed in silk.A morsel eaten selfishly does not gain a friend.A mule and a woman do what is expected of them.A mute bird makes no omen.A north wind has no corn, and a poor man no friend.A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.A penny spared is a penny saved.A pig bought on credit grunts all the year.A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.A pig's tail will never make a good arrow.A poor man is all schemes.A Portuguese apprentice who can't sew, yet would be cutting out.A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.A reconciled friend is a double enemy.A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.A scabby colt may make a good horse.A secret between two is God's secret, a secret between three is everybody's.A shock dog is starved and nobody believes it.A short halter for a greedy horse.A sick man sleeps, but not a debtor.A son-in-law's friendship is a winter's sun.A sparrow in the hand is better than a bustard on the wing.A spot shows most on the finest cloth.A tree often transplanted neither grows nor thrives.A true gentleman would rather have his clothes torn than mended.A turn of the key is better than the conscience of a friar.A well-wisher sees from afar.A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.A woman's advice is a poor thing, but he is a fool who does not
take it.A woman's tears and a log's limping are not real.A word and a stone once launched cannot be recalled.A word from the mouth, a stone from a sling.Abbot of Carcuela, you eat up the pot and ask for the pipkin.About the King and the Inquisition, hush!According to the custom of Aragon, good service, bad guerdon.After a thrifty father, a prodigal son.After breaking my head you bring plaister.After one vice a greater follows.After stuffing pears within, drink old wine until they swim.After the house is finished, he deserts it.After the vintage, baskets.Alas! father, another daughter is born to you.All do not beg for one saint.All in the way of joke the wolf goes to the ass.All is not lost that is in danger.All leaf and no fruit.All things of this world are nothing, unless they have reference to the next.All's fish that comes to the net.Always taking out and never putting in, soon reaches the bottom.An amen clerk.An ass let him be who brays at an ass.An ass with her colt goes not straight to the mill.An inch in a sword, or a palm in a lance, is a great advantage.An oak is not felled at one blow.An oak is not felled at one stroke.An open door tempts a saint.An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.An ounce of state to a pound of gold.Another's care hangs by a hair.Arms and money require good hands.As are the times, so are the manners.As for friars, live with them, eat with them, and walk with them; then sell them as they do themselves.As is the king, so are his people.As is the master, so is his dog.As long as I was a daughter-in-law I never had a good mother-in-law, and as long as I was a mother-in-law I never had a good daughter-in-law.As old as the itch.As the abbot sings the sacristan responds.As useless as monkey's fat.Ask not after a good man's pedigree.Ask too much to get enough.At an ambuscade of villains a man does better with his feet than his hands.At an auction keep your mouth shut.At the end the Gloria is chanted.At the wedding-feast the least eater is the bride.Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys you with his beak.Away with thee, sickness, to where they make a good pillow for thee. |
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