Proverb Quotes

Three Spaniards four opinions.

How many opportunities present themselves to a man without his noticing them?

The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep.

If Fortune calls offer him a seat.

What you can't get is just what suits you.

Man's heart is never satisfied the snake would swallow the elephant.

We all envy other people's luck.

Misfortunes come to all men.

I murmured because I had no shoes until I met man who had no feet.

Other people's eggs have two yolks.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.

If envy were a fever all the world would be ill.

Fear is a fine spur.

"But" is a fence over which few leap.

Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)

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

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

God made the ocean but the Dutch made Holland.

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

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.

When you have only two pennies left in the world buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.

One man's meat is another's poison.

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

He that seeks trouble always finds it.

If a man plants melons he will reap melons if he sows beans he will reap beans.

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

Bed is the poor man's opera.

The rich would have to eat money but luckily the poor provide food.

He who despises his own life is soon master of another's.

Praise the wise man behind his back but a woman to her face.

Pray to God but keep rowing to shore.

Call on God but row away from the rocks.

Trust in Allah but tie your camel first.

When the gods are angry with a man they give him what he asks for.

Prayer is the pillow of religion.

An antisemite is a person who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

When a proud man hears another praised he feels himself injured.

Every path has its puddle.

To spur a willing horse.

'For example' is not proof.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.