Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse; Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about proudness
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A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about rightness
He who eats a partridge in his youth will only be left with feathers in his old age.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about olderness, youth, age, old
Three things are not to be trusted; a cow's horn, a dog's tooth, and a horse's hoof.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about things
Spilled wine is a sign of happiness, but break the bed and all will have long faces.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about happiness, wine
They took away the mirror from me because I was ugly, and gave it to the blind woman.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about blind, woman
If you have a loitering servant, set his dinner before him and send him on an errand.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
The old for want of ability, and the young for want of knowledge, let things be lost.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about ability, knowledge, things, old, olderness
Mary Busybody never wants a bad day, and Mary Drone has God to give and bring to her.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about bad luck, god, day, bad
Friday pretexts for not fasting (meaning pleas of indisposition for not eating fish. )
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fasting
The drunkard and the glutton come to poverty, and drowsiness clothes a man with rags.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about clothes, poverty, man
Whether you ignore a pig, or worship that pig from afar, to the pig it's all the same.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all, A sting, and honey, and a body small.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about body, things
The smith's dog sleeps at the noise of the hammer, and wakes at the grinding of teeth.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
Tell your affairs in the market-place, and one will call them black and another white.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about magic
If you want to know what a man is really like, notice how he acts when he loses money.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about money, man
See to it that you have many books and many friends -- but be sure they are good ones.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about books, good, good luck
Rather mulberry than almond. (The almond-tree is in blossom earlier than the mulberry. )
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
Who gives what he has before he is dead, take a mallet and knock that fool on the head.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about heads
Smoke, a dripping roof, and a scolding wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about smoke, wife, life, man
