He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Law, Lawyers
Have patient and the mulberry leaf will become satin.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Patience
In a choice between bad company and loneliness, the second is preferable.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Choices
A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Equality
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Advice
He who divides gets the worst share.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Sharing
He who fears death cannot enjoy life.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Anxiety, Fear
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
In the absence of honest men, they made my father mayor.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Absence
Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Awareness, Self-Knowledge
A poor man is all schemes.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Poverty, The Poor
Even the best writer has to erase sometimes.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Writers, Creativity, Proverbs
He who forgives a thief is a thief himself.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Forgiveness
Chins without beards deserve no honor.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Appearance
Go not every evening to your brother’s house.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Brothers
A secret between two is God’s secret, between three is all men s.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Secrets
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Mother, Mothers, Family
Every man for himself and God for us all.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: God
If you would be Pope, you must think of nothing else.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Goals, Aspirations
He who inherits a hill must climb it.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Inheritance
Diet cures more than the lancet.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Diet
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Advice, Proverbs
In wartime no sweets are given out.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Bad Times
You can’t ring the bells and, at the same time, walk in the procession.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Focus, Concentration
Health and cheerfulness make beauty; finery and cosmetics cost money and lie.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Cheerfulness
Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Sharing, Happiness
Among the safe courses, the safest of all is to doubt.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Doubt
If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Miscellaneous, Forgiveness
Better visit hell in your lifetime than after you’re dead.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Bad Times
No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full.
—Spanish Proverb
Topics: Carpe-diem