“If your house is on fire warm yourself by it.”
— Spanish proverb
“From a fallen tree make kindling.”
— Spanish proverb
“Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.”
— Spanish proverb
“Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.”
— Spanish proverb
“When three people call you an ass put on a bridle.”
— Spanish proverb
“You can’t catch trout with dry breeches.”
— Spanish proverb
“If I die I forgive you: if I recover we shall see.”
— Spanish proverb
“When fire and water are at war it is the fire that loses.”
— Spanish proverb
“A rich child often sits in a poor mother’s lap.”
— Spanish proverb
“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”
— Spanish proverb
“Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)”
— Spanish proverb
“Three Spaniards four opinions.”
— Spanish proverb
“Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.”
— Spanish proverb
“Where there is love there is pain.”
— Spanish proverb
“Blue eyes say “Love me or I die” black eyes say “Love me or I kill thee.””
— Spanish proverb
“Laws like the spider’s web catch the fly and let the hawk go free.”
— Spanish proverb
“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.”
— Spanish proverb
“To the good listener half a word is enough.”
— Spanish proverb
“How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward.”
— Spanish proverb
“No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.”
— Spanish proverb
“Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.”
— Spanish proverb
“Habits are at first cobwebs then cables.”
— Spanish proverb
“Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.”
— Spanish proverb
“God delays but doesn’t forget.”
— Spanish proverb
“The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.”
— Spanish proverb
“If you would be Pope you must think of nothing else.”
— Spanish proverb
“Talking is easy action difficult.”
— Spanish proverb
“It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.”
— Spanish proverb
“Friends and wine should be old.”
— Spanish proverb
“Flattery makes friends truth enemies.”
— Spanish proverb