Proverbs & Sayings

Spanish Proverbs & Sayings

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• An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
  -Spanish Proverb
• An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
  ~Spanish Proverb
• All that has a name exist.
  (Izena duen guztiaomen da)
  Old Basque Proverb
• All things are difficult before they are easy.
  – Spain
• A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
  – Spain
• Catch not too soon at an offence, nor give too easy way to anger; the one shows a weak judgment, the other a perverse nature.
  – Spain
• Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. (When love is not madness, it is not love.)
  – Spanish Proverb
• Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.
  – Spanish Proverb
• Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
  – Spanish Proverb
• Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.
  ~Spanish Proverb
• Flattery makes friends, truth enemies.
  – Spanish Proverb
• From a fallen tree, all make kindling.
  – Spanish Proverb
• Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
  – Spanish Proverb
• Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
  ~Spanish Proverb
• He who can suppress a moment’s anger may prevent a day of sorrows.
  – Spain
• He who steals once is always a thief.
  – Spain
• It is much better to reprove, than to be angry secretly.
  – Spain
• If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.
  – Spanish Proverb
• If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
  – Spanish Proverb
• If you would live healthy, be old early.
  – Spanish Proverb
• If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.
  – Spanish Proverb
• It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
  ~Spanish Proverb
• Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
  – Spanish Proverb
• Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
  – Spanish Proverb
• Not the load, but the overload kills.
  – Spain
• Nothing can be more unjust, or ridiculous, than to be angry with others because they are not of our opinion.
  – Spain
• One drink is just right; two is too many; three are too few.
  – Spanish Proverb
• On going into a church leave the world behind the door.
  – Spain Proverbs are little gospels. – Spain
• Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
  – Spanish Proverb
• The belly rules the mind.
  ~Spanish Proverb
• The person who steals once is always a thief.
  – Spain
• The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.
  – Spanish Proverb
• The most faithful mirror is an old friend.
  – Spain
• The road to “bye and bye” leads to the town of never.
  —Spanish.
• Those who have lost their oxen are always hearing bells.
  – Spain
• Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.
  – Spanish Proverb
• Where there is love, there is pain.
  – Spain
• Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow.
  – Spanish Proverb
• What one owes to one’s mother is never repaid.
  – Basque Proverb
• Where there is love, there is pain.
  – Spanish Proverb
• When the bed is small lie in the centre.
  – Spain
• When a man grows angry, his reason flies out.
  – Spain
• Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
  – Spanish Proverb

Spain

• Capital: Madrid
• Currency: Euro