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| Spanish Proverb - I
I a lazy lout, you a lazy lout, marry me, Antonia.I am like you and you like me. the devil united us.I am neither at the ford nor the bridge.I broke my leg, perhaps for my good.I dance to the tune that is played.I do not tell thee what thou art, thou wilt tell it thyself.I don't count them to you, wife, but a hog makes twelve puddings.I don't want it, I don't want it, but put it into my hood.I have a good jacket in France.I know well what I say when I ask for bread.I know what I know, but will say nothing about it.I left what I knew for what I heard praised, and repented.I mistress and you miss, who is to sweep the house?I neither give nor take, like a Jew on the Sabbath.I never was satisfied with "I will, I will." One "take this" is better than two "I will give you."I say it to you, daughter; hear it, daughter-in-law.I stubborn and you stubborn, who is to carry the load?I thought I had no husband, and I eat up the stew.I thought to cross myself, and I put out my eye.I'll marry, and eat the prime of the pot, and sit down first.If folly were a pain, there would be groaning in every house.If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.If I am a fool, put your finger in my mouth.If I die, I forgive you; if I live, we shall see.If love be timid it is not true.If one, two, three say you are an ass, put on a tail.If the child cries let the mother hush it, and if it will not be hushed let it cry.If the eyes don't see, the heart won't break.If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.If the pitcher knocks against a stone, woe to the pitcher; and if the stone knocks against the pitcher, woe to the pitcher.If the rings are lost, here are the fingers still.If the sky falls there will be pots broken.If the sky falls, hold up your hands.If there were no receiver there would be no thief.If this ball does not stick to the wall it will at least leave a mark.If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.If you eat it up at supper, you cannot have it for breakfast.If you have a friend who is a doctor, make your bow and send him to the house of your enemy.If you have a loitering servant, set his dinner before him and send him on an errand.If you listen at a hole, you will hear ill of yourself as well as others.If you love me, John, your acts will tell me so.If you pay what you owe, what you're worth you'll know.If you want to be dead, wash your head and go to bed.If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.If you want to be revenged, hold your tongue.If you want to beat a dog, say he eat your iron.If you want to know secrets, seek for them in trouble or in pleasure.If you want to know what a ducat is worth, try to borrow one.If you want to thrash your wife, ask her for a drink of water in the sun.If you wish to be well served, serve yourself.If you would acquire fame, let not the sun shine on you in bed.If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.If you would live healthy, be old early.If you would live healthy, be old early.If you would make a thief honest, trust him.Ill luck enters by fathoms and departs by inches.Ill-luck upon ill-luck, and a stone for a pillow.In a smith's house the knife is wooden.In a wood don't walk behind another.In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse.In hunting and in love you begin when you like and leave off when you can.In less than a thousand years we shall all be bald.In my own house I am a king.In the bagpiper's house they are all dancers.In the garden more grows, than the gardener sows.In the report, of riches and goodness always bate one half.In the rich woman's house she always commands; he never.Ingratitude is the daughter of pride.Invite your son-in-law to a fowl, and he will take away the lemon.It fares ill with the house where the spinning-wheel commands the sword.It goes ill in the house where the hen sings and the cock is silent.It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another's.It is a loss of soap to wash the ass's head.It is a wise son that knows his own father.It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands.It is better to leap over the ditch than trust to the pleadings of good men.It is better to lose than lose more.It is better to strive with a stubborn ass than to carry the wood on one's back.It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.It is fair and just to cheat the cheater.It is in putting it into the oven that the loaf is made crooked.It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish.It is not in the pilot's power to prevent the wind from blowing.It is not the fine, but the coarse and ill-spun that breaks.It is not the hook or the rod, but the bait that lures.It is not the load but the overload that kills.It is not the same thing to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring.It is nothing, they are only thrashing my husband.It is the bait that lures, not the fisherman or the rod.It is very savoury to eat scot free.It little avails the unfortunate to be brave.It will all come out in the soap-suds.It's better to arrive on time than to be invited.It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. |
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