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Whilst the nurse suckles, we love her; when she is of no further use, she is forgotten.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about use, love

If someone cannot even keep his own secrets, don't count on him to keep someone else's.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers, are three hundred thieves.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about thieves

Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about love

He who has no wife, is for thrashing her daily; but he that has one, takes care of her.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife

If your wife tells you to throw yourself off a cliff, pray to God that it is a low one.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about pray, wife, god

Love is like a mousetrap: you go in when you want, but you don't get out when you like.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about love

Do you want to see a wolf with young (i.e. an insatiable plunderer)? Marry your daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

He who has been first a novice and then an abbot, knows what the boys do behind the altar.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Go to friends for advice, woman for love, strangers for charity and relatives for nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about charity, advice, woman, nothing, love

When a good offer comes for your daughter, don't wait till her father returns from market.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about good, good luck

If you have a friend who is a doctor, make your bow and send him to the house of your enemy.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about enemies, home, house

Such awkward things will happen as going into the great square and coming back without ears.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about things

The wolf does that in the course of the week which hinders him from going to mass on Sunday.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Since you have scolding me, I have counted a hundred and twenty holes in that nutmeg grater.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

It's the grinding of his teeth that awakes the blacksmith's dog, not the noise of the hammer.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Do you carry the trough, husband, and I will carry the sieve, which is as heavy as the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about husband, devil

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth, home

As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hatred.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wine, love

Go to friends for advice; to women for pity; to strangers for charity; to relatives for nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about charity, advice, nothing