Tell me what you brag about and I’ll tell you what you lack.
—Spanish Proverb
Go not every evening to your brother’s house.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Brothers
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Agreement
However bright the sun may shine; leave not your cloak at home.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Home
If there is still doubt do not accuse.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Doubt
A secret between two is God’s secret, between three is all men s.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Secrets
Even the best writer has to erase sometimes.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Writers, Proverbs, Creativity
People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Opinion, Opinions
Stubborn men make lawyers.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Lawyers
Dios tarda pero no olvida—God delays but doesn’t forget.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Patience
Two great talkers never go far together.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Togetherness
He who inherits a hill must climb it.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Inheritance
Let a salad-maker be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a statesman for salt, and a madman for mixing.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Life
More things grow in the garden than the gardener sows.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Garden
Diet cures more than the lancet.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Diet
Health and cheerfulness make beauty; finery and cosmetics cost money and lie.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Cheerfulness
When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
If there’s no bread, cakes are very good.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Gratitude, Appreciation, Blessings
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Advice, Proverbs
Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Alcohol, Alcoholism
Hidden joy is an extinguished candle.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Joy
Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Management
Early flowers give no seed.
—Spanish Proverb
Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Experience
It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Friendship
If you would live in health, be old early.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Health
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Flattery
Lovers always think that other people have had their eyes put out.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Eyes
If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Miscellaneous, Forgiveness
Go to friends for advice; to women for pity; to strangers for charity; to relatives for nothing.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Advice