Spanish Proverb Quotes

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Three Spaniards four opinions.

Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.

No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward.

To the good listener half a word is enough.

Laws like the spider's web catch the fly and let the hawk go free.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.

Where there is love there is pain.

Blue eyes say "Love me or I die" black eyes say "Love me or I kill thee."

Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.

Habits are at first cobwebs then cables.

Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

When fire and water are at war it is the fire that loses.

If I die I forgive you: if I recover we shall see.

You can't catch trout with dry breeches.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

If your house is on fire warm yourself by it.

From a fallen tree make kindling.

He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.

I don't want the cheese. I just want to get out of the trap.

With bread and wine you can walk your road.

From a fallen tree all make kindling.

You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.

Don't offer me advice give me money.

Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

You can't ring the bells and at the same time walk in the procession.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.

If there's no bread cakes are very good.

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Flattery makes friends truth enemies.

Friends and wine should be old.

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.

Talking is easy action difficult.

The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.

If you would be Pope you must think of nothing else.

God delays but doesn't forget.