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Neither serve one who has been a servant, nor beg of one who has been a beggar.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

It is better to strive with a stubborn ass than to carry the wood on one's back.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Italians talk to women, Frenchmen to the learned, and the Spaniard talks to God.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about god

What children hear their parents say by the fireside they repeat in the highway.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about parents, children

Plough deep whilst sluggards sleep, And you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about commerce, sleep

Make sure you have many books and many friends -- as long as they are good ones.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about books, good, good luck

The day I did not make my toilette, there came to my house one I did not expect.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house, day

For whom sword and courage are not enough, corslet and lance will not be enough.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about courage

Of your wife and your tried friend believe nothing but what you know for certain.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife, nothing

The stone is hard and the drop is small, but a hole is made by the constant fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fall

The glass-dealer's horses fell out, and he looked on to see which kicked hardest.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

He who wants to bring home the riches of India, he must have them within himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth, home

There is no answer for God out of my house, and What have you to do with my wife?

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife, home, house, god

If you are choosing between bad company and loneliness, choose the second option.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about solitude, companies, bad luck, bad

Let there be no lack of food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about food, home, house

He that minds his business at home, will not be accused of taking part in the fray.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about affair, home

He does not a little who burns his house: he frightens the rats, and warms himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

If the child cries let the mother hush it, and if it will not be hushed let it cry.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about children, mother

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. You can't escape your destiny.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about destiny

A malicious man is like a coal sack -- black on the outside and even blacker inside.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about magic, man