It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Friendship
The busy man is troubled with but one devil; the idle man by a thousand.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Busy, Idleness
Conscience is what tells you not to do what you have just done.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Conscience
Early flowers give no seed.
—Spanish Proverb
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Commitment
Always be patient with the rich and powerful.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Patience
Where the river is deepest it makes the least noise.
—Spanish Proverb
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Argument
If you want to sleep well, buy the bed of a bankrupt.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
Laws, like the spider’s web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Law
Every man is a fool in some man’s opinion.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Opinion
Spanish is the language of lovers, Italian is for the singer, French for diplomats, and German for horses.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Language
Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
He who forgives a thief is a thief himself.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Forgiveness
Tell me what you brag about and I’ll tell you what you lack.
—Spanish Proverb
It is the truth that irritates a person.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Truth
God keep you from “It is too late.” When the fool has made up his mind the market has gone by.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Procrastination, Delay, Fools
Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Love, Eyes, Feelings
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Difficulties, Adversity
Don’t talk too much, because your ignorance is greater than your knowledge.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Knowledge
Even the best writer has to erase sometimes.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Creativity, Proverbs, Writers
If your enemy is up to his waist in water, give him your hand; if the water reaches his shoulders, stand on his head.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Enemies
If there be no remedy, why worry
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Worry
You can’t ring the bells and, at the same time, walk in the procession.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Focus, Concentration
Poverty is even worse if you have to sleep on the edge of a crowded bed.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Sleeping
Memory is life’s clock.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Memory
To drunken mothers-in-law give full jugs.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
From a fallen tree, make kindling.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Adversity, Difficulties
Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Value
There are three “too much” and three “too little” that can bring a fool down: too much spending and too little money; too much talking and too little knowledge; and too much boasting and too little earnings.
—Spanish Proverb
Hidden joy is an extinguished candle.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Joy
Through not spending enough we spend too much.
—Spanish Proverb
Her father’s fortune will make the ugliest girl attractive.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Girls
Seven brothers in a council make wrong right.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Brothers
Flattery makes friends, truth enemies.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Candor, Friendship
A poor man is all schemes.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: The Poor, Poverty
Con pan y vino se anda el camino With bread and wine you can walk your road.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Wine
A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Words
Go to friends for advice; to women for pity; to strangers for charity; to relatives for nothing.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Advice
Go not every evening to your brother’s house.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Brothers