Proverbs from Spanish Proverbs

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• A14 Better is one ACCIPE (take) than twice to say, Dabo tibi (I will give you)
• A31 We are all ADAM's children but silk makes the difference
• A48 AFFECTION is blind reason
• A84 Autumnal AGUES are long or mortal
• A97 No ALCHEMY to¹ saving
• A111 ALL are fools
• A161 ALL must be as God will
• A202 Speak not ALL you know, do not all you can, believe not all you hear
• A223 ALMS never make poor
• A256 The ANT had wings to do her hurt
• A261 When you are an ANVIL hold you still, when you are a hammer strike your fill
• A294 One rotten APPLE corrupts all those apples that lie near it
• A306 APRIL and May are the key of all the year
• A370 He that washes an ASS's head loses both his soap and labor
• B53 Be not a BAKER if your head be of butter
• B72 A young BARBER and an old physician
• B92 BARNABY BRIGHT, the longest day and the shortest night
• B113 The BEADS in the hand and the devil in capuche1
• B138 First BORN first fed
• B166 BEAUTY draws more than oxen
• B183 Better to go to BED supperless than to rise in debt
• B185 Eat till you sweat and work till you freeze and lie in BED till your bones ache
• B196 Who goes to BED supperless all night tumbles and tosses
• B305 A BELLYFUL is a bellyful though it be but of chopped hay
• B385 To every BIRD his own nest is best
• B479 Better a BLUSH in the face than a spot in the heart
• B510 Buy the BOLSTER (pillow) of one in debt and thou wilt sleep soundly
• B552 Who still takes out and puts not in will quickly find a BOTTOM
• B615 BREAD with eyes, cheese without eyes, and wine that leaps up to the eyes
• B619 Eat BREAD at pleasure, drink wine by measure
• B625 Plow deep, thou shalt have BREAD (corn) enough
• B665 Make a BRIDGE of gold (silver) for a flying enemy
• B689 Between BROTHERS put not thou thy hand, for who severs them has ever the worst
• B733 A BURR¹ around the moon bodes wind and rain
• B749 He that stays does the BUSINESS
• B786 Who always BUYS and sells feels not what he spends
• C5 To keep a CACKLING and lay no eggs
• C18a A quiet CALF sucks its dam and another cow also
• C67 He that gives thee a CAPON give him the leg and the wing
• C231 CHANGE of weather is the discourse of fools
• C270 CHEESE is good that comes from a niggard (miser)
• C310 A late CHILD an early orphan
• C323 He that wipes the CHILD's nose kisses the mother's cheek
• C364 That which CHRIST has not the exchequer carries
• C397 Far from CITY far from health
• C465 To blow the COALS
• C490 Who eats his COCK (dinner) alone must saddle his horse alone
• C560 There is no COMPANION like the penny
• C657 Grind good CORN and blow not the horn
• C683 Good COUNSEL cannot be bought too dear
• C686 Good COUNSEL proceeds from a friendly mind
• C713 The COUNTRYMAN between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats
• C817 He that has lost his CREDIT is dead to the world
• C818 The CREDITOR has a better memory than the debtor
• C837 The CROSS in his breast and the devil in his actions
• C846 Breed up a CROW and she will peck out your eyes
• C849 The CROW cannot be blacker than her wings
• C876 Better be a CUCKOLD and not know it than be none and everybody say so
• C878 The CUCKOLD was very cunning but he was cunninger that cuckolded him
• C879 He that is a CUCKOLD and allows it may be so forever
• C885 Who is a CUCKOLD and conceals it carries coals in his bosom
• C918 Two CURS shall tame (bite) each other
• D45 Marry your DAUGHTER and eat fresh fish betimes
• D104 Though you rise early yet the DAY comes at his time and not till then
• D110 Who rises late trots all the DAY
• D149 DEATH takes no bribe
• D164 He that gets out of DEBT grows rich
• D187 DEEDS are male (men), words are female (women)
• D197 That DELAY is good which makes the way the safer
• D229 The DEVIL brought the bashful man to the court
• D235 The DEVIL gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts
• D269 The DEVIL turns his back at a door shut
• D360 DISEASES of the eye are to be cured with the elbow
• D365 The DiSH (pot) wears its OWN cover
• D387 Better to go about than to fall into the DITCH
• D459 The DOG wags his tail not for love of you but of your bread
• D485 If you will have the DOG follow you (have a good dog), give him bread (feed him well)
• D537 He that lies down (goes to bed, sleeps) with DOGS must rise with fleas
• D558 An open DOOR (gate) may tempt a saint
• D577 A great DOWRY is a bed full of brabbles (brambles)
• D593 Many DRESSERS put the bride's dress out of order
• D614 DROP by drop the sea is drained (the tub is filled)
• D658 He that eats well and drinks well should do his DUTY well
• E70 An EGG today is better than a hen tomorrow
• E78 One EGG is none, two somewhat, three enough, four be too much, five give a deadly blow
• E138 He that dallies with his ENEMY dies by his own hand (by his hand)
• E139 It is better to leave to an ENEMY at one's death than to beg of a friend in one's life
• E169 Who serves well asks ENOUGH
• E177 Better be ENVIED than pitied
• E178 Marry your EQUAL
• E190 The EVENING crowns (praises) the day
• E233 The EYE will be where the love is
• E242 Jest (Bourd¹) not with the EYE or with religion (honor)
• E264 Neither EYES on letters nor hands in coffers (purses)
• F25 Buy at a FAIR but sell at home
• F49 It is a poor FAMILY (kin) which has neither a whore nor a thief in it
• F91 A sparing FATHER and a spending (prodigal) son
• F109 He is neither absent without FAULT nor present without excuse
• F116 Where no FAULT is there needs no pardon
• F186 There's no FENCE against ill fortune
• F200 I saw FEW die of hunger, of eating much a hundred thousand
• F223 Who FINDS himself well let him not stir
• F262 FIRE of flax, love of a quean, wind from the tail, all is one
• F310 Fresh FISH and newcome guests smell by that time they be three days old
• F324 That FISH will soon be caught that nibbles at every hook (bait)
• F337 Go early to the FISH MARKET and late to the butchery
• F449 Even a FOOL sometimes speaks a wise word (to the purpose)
• F451 Everyone has a FOOL in his sleeve
• F461 A FOOL is better than an obstinate man
• F490 He that teaches himself has a FOOL to his master
• F527 FOOLS and conceited men (quarrelers) make lawyers rich
• F540 FOOLS make feasts and wise men eat them
• F551 If FOOLS went not to market bad ware would not be sold
• F563 The FOOT on the cradle and the hand on the distaff is the sign of a good housewife
• F571 To take one FOOT out of the mire and put in the other
• F579 Keep thy FEET dry, thy mouth moist
• F616 When ill FORTUNE lies asleep let none awake her
• F673 Do as the FRIAR says, not as he does
• F698 A FRIEND to all is a friend to none
• F705 He is my FRIEND that grinds at my mill
• F722 When a FRIEND asks there is no tomorrow
• F739 From my FRIENDS God defend me, from my enemies I can keep myself
• F755 Old FRIENDS and old wine are best
• F766 When the FROG has hair thou wilt be good
• F768 Bearded FROST forerunner of snow
• F782 The FRYING PAN said to the kettle, Avaunt, black brows
• G106 GIFTS break through rocks
• G107 GIFTS enter everywhere without a wimble¹
• G129 He that's long a GIVING knows not how to give
• G164 He that GOES far to marry will either deceive or be deceived
• G172 Above GOD there is no lord, above black there is no color, and above salt there is no savor
• G181 GOD comes to see without a bell
• G184 GOD defend me from the still water and I'll keep myself from the rough
• G190 GOD heals and the physician has the thanks (takes the fee)
• G226 GOD strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made havens and to rivers fords
• G232 He that errs and mends to GOD himself commends
• G243 Pray to GOD to help you and put your hand to work
• G256 When GOD will all winds bring rain (no wind but brings rain)
• G258 When it pleases not GOD the saint can do little
• G261 Whom GOD loves, his bitch brings forth pigs
• G351 GOOSE and gander and gosling are three sounds but one thing
• G383 My GOSSIPS wish me ill because I tell them truth
• G398 GRAIN by grain and the hen (ant) fills her belly (his barn)
• G399 One GRAIN fills not a sack but helps his fellows
• G445 Go not for every GRIEF to the physician nor for every quarrel to the lawyer nor for every thirst to the pot
• H25 There is no HAIR so small but has its shadow
• H39 HALF a word (tale) to a wise man (a good understander) is enough
• H127 A HANDFUL of nature is better than an armful of science¹
• H151 HARE is melancholy meat
• H152 The HARE runs well but the dog that catches her better
• H163 He that hunts two HARES loses both
• H191 He that resolves in HASTE repents at leisure
• H218 Not what is she but what HAS she
• H269 To break one's HEAD and give him a plaster
• H295 Who so deaf as he that will not HEAR?
• H356 Who spits against HEAVEN, it falls in his face
• H375 Take HEED of a young wench, a prophetess, and a Latin woman
• H378 Take HEED of enemies (friends) reconciled and of meat twice boiled
• H384 Take HEED of wind that comes in at a hole and a reconciled enemy
• H404 HELL is full of good meanings and wishings (intentions)
• H422 If one knew how good it were to eat a HEN in January, had he twenty in the flock he'd leave but one to go with the cock
• H425 Nor HEN without bacon, nor sermon without Saint Austin
• H486 Every HOG has his Saint Martin
• H498 To steal the HOG and give the feet for alms
• H523 He is blind enough who sees not through the HOLES of a sieve
• H550 He that has no HONEY in his pot let him have it in his mouth
• H569 HONOR and profit lie not in one sack
• H575 HONOR without profit is a ring on the finger
• H597 He that lives in HOPE dances without music
• H640 A flea-bitten HORSE never tires
• H688 A running HORSE needs no spur
• H740 He was born in an ill HOUR who gets an ill name
• H749 Before thou marry be sure of a HOUSE wherein to tarry
• H778 It is a sad HOUSE where the hen crows louder than the cock
• H781 A smoking HOUSE and a chiding wife make a man run out of doors (Smoke, rain, and a cursed wife drive a man out of his house)
• H782 There is no HOUSE but has something not to be spoken of
• H789 Whose HOUSE (head) is of glass must not throw stones at another
• H808 Who has a HUNDRED and owes a hundred and one needs not fear; who has a hundred and one and owes one hundred and two, I recommend him to God
• H831 A good HUSBAND makes a good wife
• H835 HUSBAND, you are a cuckold. Wife, who told you so?
• I12 IDLENESS is the key of beggary
• I30 ILL comes in by ells and goes out by inches
• I35 There is no ILL but may turn to one's good
• I98 To hammer on cold IRON
• J34 JANUARY freezes the pot by the fire
• J43 True JESTS are the worst
• J54 The JEWS spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, and the Christians in suits of law
• J77 In a long JOURNEY straw weighs
• J94 From a foolish JUDGE a quick sentence
• J102 JUNE, July, and August, wife, I know thee not
• K9 Better KEEP now than seek anon (than ask)
• K70 Like KING (prince) like people
• K157 The same KNIFE cuts both bread and the finger
• K173 I KNOW (wot) what I know (wot)
• L6 A little LABOR much health
• L10 He that will not LABOR must not eat
• L13 In the LABORER's house hunger looks in but dares not enter
• L78 He overtakes at LAST who tires not
• L89 With LATIN, a good nag (horse), and money you may travel the world
• L183 Cut off the LEG of an ill custom
• L204 Who intends to have a short LENT let him take up money to pay at Easter
• L241 LIES have no (short) feet (legs, wings)
• L285 LIKE to like and Nan for Nicholas
• L314 The LION is not so fierce as he is painted
• L333 With what LIQUOR a vessel is first seasoned, it will long keep the scent of it
• L344 Dine with LITTLE, sup with less
• L345 He can give LITTLE to his servant that licks his knife
• L346 He is not poor that has LITTLE but he that desires much
• L349 He that knows LITTLE often repeats it
• L390 He that LIVES well is learned enough
• L406 No LOCK will hold against the power of gold
• L433 He that LOOKS not before finds himself behind
• L504 LOVE does much but money does all (more)
• L515 LOVE is the reward of love
• L542 Sound LOVE is not soon forgotten
• L552 Who marries for LOVE without money has good nights and sorry days
• L585 LUCY-LIGHT¹, the shortest day and the longest night
• M145 From a choleric MAN withdraw a little, from him that says nothing, forever
• M155 Greet a red MAN and a bearded woman three miles off
• M181 He wrongs not an old MAN that steals his supper from him
• M208 Let an ill MAN lie in thy straw and he looks to be thy heir
• M214 A long-nosed MAN is seldom a cuckold
• M230 A MAN dies of the ill he fears
• M272 A MAN must ask excessively to get a little
• M281 A MAN must not leave the king's highway for a pathway
• M317 No MAN better knows what is good than he who has endured evil
• M370 Seldom is a long MAN wise or a low man lowly
• M376 The singing MAN keeps his shop in his throat
• M390 Therefore a MAN is a cuckold because two can do more than one
• M424 The wise MAN is deceived but once, the fool twice
• M426 A wise (valiant) MAN makes every country his own
• M446 The blind MAN's wife needs no painting
• M461 In the wise MAN's mouth what is public (manifest) is secret
• M480 The old MAN's staff is the rapper at death's door
• M493 To meddle (Meddle not) with another MAN's matter
• M505 All MEN must die
• M531 If all MEN may say that thou art an ass then bray
• M536 Keep not ill MEN company lest you increase the number
• M538 Married MEN need (need not) many eyes
• M554 MEN must do as they may (can), not as they would
• M591 To dead MEN and absent there are no friends left
• M612 Happy is he whom other MEN's harms make beware
• M640 He is as sure as MARCH in Lent
• M644 A windy MARCH and a rainy April make a beau-tiful May
• M648 He that speaks ill of the MARE will buy her
• M734 The MASTER's footsteps fatten the soil
• M745 He has met with his MATCH
• M825 MEAT (Oats) and mass (matins) never hindered man (hinder no man's journey)
• M826 MEAT is much (good) but manners (mense¹) is more (better)
• M847 The wholesomest MEAT is at another man's cost
• M867 A MELON and a woman are hard to be known
• M936 MILK says to wine, Welcome, friend
• M990 The best MIRROR is an old friend
• M1041a He that has MONEY has most things
• M1051 MONEY and good manners make the gentle-man
• M1075 MONEY makes masteries (masters)
• M1076 MONEY makes the man
• M1104 Would you know what MONEY is? Go borrow some
• M1131 The more MOORS the better victory (the more gain)
• M1173 In the MORNING mountains, in the evening fountains
• M1175 A red MORNING foretells a stormy day
• M1201 A pitiful MOTHER makes a scabby daughter (a scald¹ head)
• M1247 A close MOUTH catches no flies
• M1248 A cool MOUTH and warm feet live long
• M1277 Hear MUCH but speak little
• M1285 MUCH on earth, little in heaven
• M1286 MUCH on earth, little in heaven
• M1292 To offer MUCH is a kind of denial
• M1295 Who too MUCH grips (grasps, embraces) the less he holds (holds nothing fast)
• M1296 Whoso makes MUCH of thee that was not wont either will deceive or stands in need of thee
• N26 He that has the NAME (fame¹) to be an early riser may sleep till noon
• N109 Love your NEIGHBOR, yet pull not down your hedge
• N115 Our NEIGHBOR's ground yields better corn than our own
• N140 He that brings good NEWS knocks boldly
• N295 NOTHING is easier than to deceive oneself
• N305 NOTHING is to be gotten without pains (labor)
• O8 He that takes away the OCCASION takes away the offense
• O34 He that would be OLD long (well old) must be old betimes (Old young and old long)
• O52 ONE and none is all ONE (ONE is as good as none, ONE is none)
• O102 As much dungs one OX as a thousand flies
• O105 An old OX makes a straight furrow
• O107 An OX is taken by the horns and a man by the tongue (word)
• P2 He that stumbles and falls not mends his PACE (goes the faster)
• P17 It is more PAIN (painful) to do nothing than something
• P46 PAPER and ink cost money
• P144 Although I hold my PEACE I gather up stones
• P156 The PEACH will have wine, the fig water
• P163 Share not PEARS with your master either in jest or in earnest
• P177 Never inquire the PEDIGREE of a good man
• P227 So I be warm let the PEOPLE laugh
• P246 PETER is so much God's that God gets him not
• P261 Deceive not your PHYSICIAN, confessor, or lawyer
• P269 Piss clear and defy the PHYSICIAN
• P275 The PHYSICIANS OF VALENCIA have long robes and little skill
• P303 I desire not a PIG with a bell about his neck
• P330 He that takes not up a PIN slights his wife
• P372 He that PITIES another remembers himself
• P423 Stolen PLEASURES are sweetest
• P455 He knows one POINT more than the devil
• P513 Every POTTER praises his own pot
• P522 Neither be daunted with POVERTY nor lifted up with riches
• P555 A short PRAYER penetrates heaven
• P588 PRIESTS and pigeons (doves) make foul houses
• P603 PROMISE is debt
• P649 An empty PURSE makes one wise, but too late
• Q11 To a hasty QUESTION a leisurely answer
• R42 Hearken to REASON or she will be heard
• R64 RELIGION, credit, and the eye are not to be touched
• R66 The best REMEDY against an ill man is much ground between both
• R78 REPENTANCE costs dear
• R135 An early RISER has care of something
• R170 He pulls with a long ROPE that waits for another's death
• S20 He SADDLES today and goes tomorrow
• S173 He that will learn to pray let him go to SEA
• S190 Everything is good in its SEASON
• S192 He that tells his SECRET is another's servant (slave)
• S193 A SECRET is too little for one, enough for two, too much for three
• S236 Never keep a SERVANT against his will, nor kinsman, nor friend, if you intend to be well served
• S248 If you would be well SERVED serve yourself
• S250 Good SERVICE is a great enchantment
• S253 SERVICE is no inheritance (heritage)
• S265 You can never made a good SHAFT (arrow) of a pig's (sow's) tail
• S297 A bleating SHEEP loses her bit
• S298 The glorious SHEEP said to the goat, Give me some of your wool
• S307 Now I have a SHEEP and a cow everybody bids me good morrow
• S446 SILENCE is (gives) consent
• S471 Old SIN breeds (makes) new shame (repentance)
• S484 Better be still SINGLE than ill married
• S514 Who has SKIRTS of straw needs fear the fire
• S572 The SMOKE of a man's own house (country) is better than the fire of another's
• S625 I am not sorry that my SON loses at play but that he will have a revenge
• S626 Marry your SON when you will, your daughter when you can
• S629 The SON full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine
• S665 Who sings does scare away his SORROWS
• S682 To grease a fat SOW in the tail
• S714 Of a little SPARK a great fire
• S717 Two SPARROWS on one ear of corn cannot agree
• S723 SPEAK when you are spoken to, come when you are called
• S754 The SPINDLE is miserable when a beard¹ is not above it
• S757 The diligent SPINNER has a large shift
• S785 When there is a SPRING in winter and a winter in spring the year is never good
• S882 He that stumbles twice at the same STONE deserves to have his shins broke
• S961 A SUIT of law and a urinal bring a man to the hospital
• S968 Although the SUN shines leave not your cloak at home
• S976 March SUN sticks like a lock of wool
• S978 The morning SUN never lasts a day
• S985 The SUN shines upon all alike
• S1004 By SUPPERS more have been killed than Galen (Avicen) ever cured
• S1012 The best SURGEON is he that has been well hacked (slashed) himself
• T22 A hundred TAILORS, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers make three hundred thieves
• T81 Care not for the TEARS of a whore or the bravadoes of a ruffian
• T87 TELL me with whom thou goest and I will tell thee what thou dost (who thou art)
• T116 The THIEF thinks all are of his condition
• T185 If THINGS were to be done twice all would be wise
• T190 Many THINGS grow in the garden which were never sowed
• T213 Two good THINGS (shirts) are better than one
• T228 He that sows THISTLES shall reap thorns (prickles)
• T229 He cuts large THONGS of other men's leather
• T235 He that goes barefoot (sows thorns) must not plant THORNs (go barefoot)
• T258 THREE to one may put a straw in one's ass
• T276 I escaped the THUNDER and fell into the lightning
• T292 He that has TIME and looks for time loses time
• T325 TIME cures every disease
• T397 A long TONGUE is a sign of a short hand
• T404 The TONGUE is ever turning to the aching tooth
• T432 Who has aching TEETH has ill tenants
• T460 He that learns a TRADE has a purchase made (has an estate)
• T487 He that leans on a good TREE a good shade shall cover him
• T504 You ask an elm TREE for pears
• T508 He is doubly wet that shrouds himself under TREES
• T538 You cannot take TROUTS with dry breeches
• T551 No TRUST is to be given to a woman's word (a woman)
• T559 He who TRUSTS not is not deceived
• T568 TRUTH and oil are ever above
• T577 TRUTH is green
• T631 He that is not handsome at TWENTY, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich, or wise
• T643 Two of a TRADE seldom agree
• V6 VAINGLORY is a flower that bears no corn
• V95 The VOICE of the people is the voice of God
• W20 We see not what is in the WALLET behind
• W112 To put WATER in one's wine
• W117 WATER after figs and wine after pears
• W120 WATER in May, bread for all the year
• W147 The old WAY (fashion) is best
• W153 The WAY to make a woman a fool is to commend her beauty
• W175 Long WAYS long lies
• W198 Little WEALTH (goods) little care
• W220 There is no WEATHER ill when the wind is still
• W239 Neither WEED amongst corn nor suspicion in friendship
• W250 WEIGH justly and sell dearly
• W338 Marry a WIDOW before she leaves mourning
• W339 A rich WIDOW a quiet house
• W340 The rich WIDOW weeps with one eye and casts glances with the other
• W346 The cunning WIFE makes her husband her apron
• W347a Do not tell your WIFE all you know
• W350 The first WIFE is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy
• W362 He that tells his WIFE news is but newly married
• W373 Show me thy WIFE and I will tell thee what a husband thou art
• W377 Who has a fair WIFE needs more than two eyes
• W378 Who will have a handsome WIFE let him choose her upon Saturday and not upon Sunday
• W459 Drink WINE like a king, drink water like an ox
• W463 He cries WINE and sells vinegar
• W611 The WOLF and the fox are both of the same mind
• W632 In a black WOMAN there is turpentine
• W638 Trust not a WOMAN when she weeps
• W645 A WOMAN and a cherry paint themselves for their hurt
• W654 A WOMAN is never without an excuse
• W656 WOMAN is the woe of man
• W668 Take a WOMAN's first counsel and not her second
• W688 The more WOMEN look in their glass the less they look to their house
• W690 Three WOMEN (Three women and a goose) make a market
• W696 WOMEN and wine make men out of their wits
• W754 Many go out for WOOL and come home shorn
• W777 A WORD and a stone let go (A word spoken) cannot be called back
• W802 From WORDS to deeds is a great space (distance)
• W806 Good WORDS cool (quench) more than cold (a bucket of, a cauldron of) water
• W831 WORDS and feathers the wind carries away
• W839 WORDS hurt (cut) more than swords
• W843 Everybody's WORK is nobody's work
• W877 In the WORLD who knows not to swim goes (The world is round and he that cannot swim sinks) to the bottom
• W883 This WORLD is nothing except it tend to another
• W919 The WORST of law is that one suit breeds twenty
• W940 Before you WRITE receive and before you give write
• W948 WRONG hears, wrong answer gives
• Y32 YESTERDAY's bread, and this day's flesh, wine of the year past bring health
• Y49 A growing YOUTH has a wolf in his belly
• Y50 A well-bred YOUTH neither speaks of himself nor, being spoken to, is silent