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There is no woman who sleeps so deeply that the sound of a guitar won't bring her to the window.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about woman

To be like the esquire of Guadalaxara, who knew nothing in the morning of what he said at night.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about night, nothing

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man, knowledge, wisdom

To friend and foe alike I tell them how bad she is, so that I don't have to share her with anyone.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about bad luck, bad

Things often happen when you least expect them to. Where we least think, there goes the hare away.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about things

The road of about, leads only to the house of never. Near the spring nobody dies of thirst.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about spring, home, house

The Jew ruins himself with passovers, the Moor with wedding feasts, and the Christian with lawsuits.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about marriage

When the Devil was sick the Devil a monk would be, When the Devil got well, the devil a monk was he.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about devil

To offer friendship to one who is looking for love, is like giving bread to someone dying of thirst.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about friendship, love

Not all things have to be scrutinized, nor all friends tested, not all enemies exposed and denounced.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about enemies, things

Love one that does not love you, answer one that does not call you, and you will run a fruitless race.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about love

The gentle lamb sucks any ewe as well as its mother; the surly lamb sucks neither its own nor another.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about mother

You have to make the most of the chances that come your way. You have to strike while the iron is hot.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about chance

As for friars, live with them, eat with them, and walk with them; then sell them as they do themselves.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about commerce

I never was satisfied with I will, I will. One take this is better than two I will give you.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Go not with every ailment to the doctor, with every plea to the lawyer, or with every thirst to the can.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

He who was first an acolyte, and afterwards an abbot or curate, knows what the boys do behind the altar.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

He will never worship well the image on the altar who knew it when it was a trunk of wood in the garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about garden

A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

He who has a good looking wife, a castle on the river, or a vineyard on the roadside is never without war.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about war, wife, good, good luck