Spanish proverbs
Traditional saying. The library holds 1335 of them. Here are the 60 most quoted; search the library in the maker for the rest.
Often about: wisdom, family, money, faith, nature, time
The 60 best known
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Marry your son when you will, and your daughter when you can.
translated by Henry G. Bohn -
The grapes are sour, said the fox when he could not reach them.
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Tell your friend your secret, and he will set his foot on your neck.
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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.
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God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little.
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Smoke, a dripping roof, and a scolding wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life.
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It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish.
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He who has a bad wife can expect no happiness that can be so called.
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The pitcher that goes often to the well leaves either its handle or its spout.
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He who is everybody’s friend is either very poor or very rich.
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The wise knows that he does not know; the ignoramus thinks he knows.
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To break the constable’s head and take refuge with the sheriff.
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By the street of By-and-by one arrives at the house of Never.
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Tell me what company you keep, and I will tell you who you are.
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Neither sign a paper without reading it, nor drink water without seeing it.
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Steal the pig, and give away the pettitoes for God’s sake.
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The threatener loses the opportunity of vengeance.
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What is much desired is not believed when it comes.
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A word and a stone once launched cannot be recalled.
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A hungry man discovers more than a hundred lawyers.
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Let him that has a mouth not say to another, Blow.
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There is no mother like the mother that bore us.
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When it rains in August it rains honey and wine.
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Sleep over it, and you will come to a resolution.
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There is some distance between Peter and Peter.
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Beware of a reconciled friend as of the devil.
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He who does not mix with the crowd knows nothing.
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If you love me, John, your acts will tell me so.
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Bleed him and purge him; if he dies, bury him.
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He who avoids the temptation avoids the sin.
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Gossips fall out, and tell each other truths.
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The fox knows well with whom he plays tricks.
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Plough or not plough, you must pay your rent.
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Call me not olive till you see me gathered.
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Make a bridge of silver for the flying enemy.
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The sharper soon cheats the covetous man.
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Folly is the most incurable of maladies.
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The friar who begs for God begs for two.
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The dead and the absent have no friends.
translated by Henry G. Bohn -
In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse.
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Perseverance kills the game.
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When thou seest thy house in flames, go warm thyself by it.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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The ass knows well in whose face he brays.
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A poor man is all schemes.
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Beggars must not be choosers.
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When God gives light he gives it for all.
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He who talks much is sometimes right.
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God made us, and we admire ourselves.
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Women, wind, and fortune soon change.
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He is my friend who grinds at my mill.
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Prosperity forgets father and mother.
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The evil which issues from thy mouth falls into thy bosom.
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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.
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The bread eaten, the company departed.
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Giving alms never lessens the purse.
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Misers’ money goes twice to market.
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To go for wool and come back shorn.
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A mewing cat is never a good mouser.
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God keep you from ‘It is too late’.
translated by Walter K. Kelly