It is the truth that irritates a person.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Truth
At her wedding, the bride eats the least.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Weddings
Conscience is what tells you not to do what you have just done.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Conscience
He who inherits a hill must climb it.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Inheritance
Con pan y vino se anda el camino With bread and wine you can walk your road.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Wine, Proverbs
It is better to be a mouse in a cat’s mouth than a man in a lawyer’s hands.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Lawyers, Proverbs
Three Spaniards, four opinions.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Public opinion
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Friendship, Friends, Family
On a long journey, even a straw weighs heavy.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Journeys
Poverty is even worse if you have to sleep on the edge of a crowded bed.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Advice, Proverbs
A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Words, Proverbs
Where the river is deepest it makes the least noise.
—Spanish Proverb
Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Jealousy
The cask full, the mother-in-law drunk.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
Have patient and the mulberry leaf will become satin.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Patience
The more you flatter a fool, the more seriously he plays his game.
—Spanish Proverb
Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Feelings, Eyes, Love
Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
If you would be Pope, you must think of nothing else.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Aspirations, Goals
A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Pride, Proverbs
Hidden joy is an extinguished candle.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Joy
A poor man is all schemes.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: The Poor, Poverty
Seven brothers in a council make wrong right.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Brothers
Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Experience
A woman’s advice is of little value, but he who does not take it is a fool.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Advice
Spanish is the language of lovers, Italian is for the singer, French for diplomats, and German for horses.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Language
Friends and wine should be old.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Friendship
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Agreement
The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Kings, Power
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