A bad compromise is better than a successful suit.

A bad day never hath a good night.

A bad excuse is better than none.

A bad labour, and a daughter after all.

A bad man's gift is like his master.

A bad mother wishes for good children.

A bad thing never dies.

A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills.

A barking dog was never a good biter.

A bespattered hog tries to bespatter another.

A blind man's stroke, which raises a dust from beneath water.

A blind man's wife needs no paint.

A blow from a frying-pan, if it does not hurt, smuts.

A blow with a reed makes a noise but hurts not.

A blustering night, a fair day follows.

A boaster and a liar are cousins.

A boy's love is water in a sieve.

A buffeting threatened is never well given.

A bully is always a coward.

A buxom widow must be married, buried, or cloistered.

A child of a year old sucks milk from the heel.

A covetous abbot for one offering loses a hundred.

A cracked bell will never be sound.

A crazy vessel never falls from the hand.

A daily guest is a thief in the kitchen.

A determined heart will not be counselled.

A devotee's face, and a cat's claws.

A dog does not always bark at the front gate.

A fast day is the eve of a feast day.

A father's love, for all other is air.

A fifth wheel to a cart is but an encumbrance.

A fool sometimes gives good counsel.

A fool, if he holds his tongue, passes for wise.

A fool, unless he know Latin, is never a great fool.

A fortress on its guard is not surprised.

A fortunate man may be anywhere.

A fried to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.

A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.

A full belly is neither good for flight, nor for fighting.

A girl draws more than a rope.

A good grievance is better than bad payment.

A good heart breaks bad fortune.

A good hope is better than a bad possession.

A good life defers wrinkles.

A good listener is a silent flatterer.

A good man's pedigree is little hunted up.

A good name covers theft.

A good paymaster is keeper of other men's purses.

A good paymaster needs no security.

A good thing lost is a good thing valued.

A good word extinguishes more than a pailful of water.

A grain does not fill a sieve, but it helps its fellow.

A grand eloquence, little conscience.

A great lance-thrust to a dead Moor.

A great leap gives a great shake.

A great man's entreaty is a command.

A great position entails great responsibility.

A hair casts its shadow on the ground.

A handful of motherwit is worth a bushel of learning.

A handsome man is not quite poor.

A handsome woman is either silly or vain.

A hangman is a good trade, he doth his work by daylight.

A horseshoe that clatters wants a nail.

A house filled with guests is eaten up and ill spoken of.

A house ready built and a vineyard ready planted.

A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hundred weavers, are three hundred thieves.

A hundred years hence we shall all be bald.

A hungry belly listens to no one.

A hungry man discovers more than a hundred lawyers.

A hungry man is an angry man.

A husband with one eye rather than with a son.

A kitchen-dog is never a good rabbit-hunter.

A lame goat will not sleep by day.

A lawsuit for a maravedi consumes a real's worth of paper.

A lazy ox is little the better for the goad.

A lazy youth, a lousy age.

A little gall embitters much honey.

A little loss frightens, a great one tames.

A man forewarned is as good as two.

A man gains nothing by vain glory but contempt and hatred.

A man may hap to bring home with him what makes him weep.

A man may lose his goods for want of demanding them.

A man that has had his fill is no eater.

A man that is lean, not from hunger, is harder than brass.

A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground.

A measly hog infects the whole sty.

A melon and a woman are hard to know.

A mewing cat is never a good mouser.

A mistress in a high place is not a bad thing.

A monkey remains a monkey, though dressed in silk.

A morsel eaten selfishly does not gain a friend.

A mule and a woman do what is expected of them.

A mute bird makes no omen.

A north wind has no corn, and a poor man no friend.

A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

A peasant will stand on the top of a hill for a very long time with his mouth open before a roast duck will fly in.

A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom.

A penny spared is a penny saved.

A pig bought on credit grunts all the year.

A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.

A pig's tail will never make a good arrow.

A poor man is all schemes.

A Portuguese apprentice who can't sew, yet would be cutting out.

A postern door makes a thief.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

A rose too often smelled loses its fragrance.

A scabby colt may make a good horse.

A secret between two is God's secret, a secret between three is everybody's.

A shock dog is starved and nobody believes it.

A shoemaker's wife and a smith's mare are always the worst shod.

A short halter for a greedy horse.

A short horse is soon curried.

A sick man sleeps, but not a debtor.

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study

A son-in-law's friendship is a winter's sun.

A sooty chimney costs many a beef-steak.

A sparrow in the hand is better than a bustard on the wing.

A spot shows most on the finest cloth.

A tree often transplanted neither grows nor thrives.

A true gentleman would rather have his clothes torn than mended.

A turn of the key is better than the conscience of a friar.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out.

A well-wisher sees from afar.

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

A woman's tears and a log's limping are not real.

A word and a stone once launched cannot be recalled.

A word from the mouth, a stone from a sling.

Abbot of Carcuela, you eat up the pot and ask for the pipkin.

According to the custom of Aragon, good service, bad guerdon.

After a thrifty father, a prodigal son.

After breaking my head you bring plaister.

After one vice a greater follows.

After stuffing pears within, drink old wine until they swim.

After the house is finished, he deserts it.

After the vintage, baskets.

Alas! father, another daughter is born to you.

All do not beg for one saint.

All in the way of joke the wolf goes to the ass.

All is fair in love and war.

All is not lost that is in danger.

All things of this world are nothing, unless they have reference to the next.

All's fish that comes to the net.

All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

All's lost that's put in a riven dish.

All's not lost that's in danger.

Always taking out and never putting in, soon reaches the bottom.

An ass let him be who brays at an ass.

An ass with her colt goes not straight to the mill.

An inch in a sword, or a palm in a lance, is a great advantage.

An oak is not felled at one blow.

An oak is not felled at one stroke.

An open door tempts a saint.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.

An ounce of state to a pound of gold.

An ounce of wit that's bought Is worth a pound that's taught.

Another's care hangs by a hair.

Arms and money require good hands.

As are the times, so are the manners.

As for friars, live with them, eat with them, and walk with them; then sell them as they do themselves.

As is the king, so are his people.

As is the master, so is his dog.

As long as I was a daughter-in-law I never had a good mother-in-law, and as long as I was a mother-in-law I never had a good daughter-in-law.

As mony heads, as mony wits.

As the abbot sings the sacristan responds.

As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hatred.

As the call, so the echo.

As the day lengthens, so the cold strengthens.

Ask not after a good man's pedigree.

Ask too much to get enough.

At an ambuscade of villains a man does better with his feet than his hands.

At an auction keep your mouth shut.

At the end the Gloria is chanted.

At the wedding-feast the least eater is the bride.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Attack is the best form of defense.

Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys you with his beak.

Away with thee, sickness, to where they make a good pillow for thee.

Bachelor, a peacock; betrothed, a lion; married, an ass.

Bad news is always true.

Bargains are dear.

Be a custom good or bad, a peasant will have it continue in force.

Be merry, Shrovetide, for to-morrow thou wilt be ashes.

Be my enemy and go to my mill.

Be not a baker if your head is butter.

Be not an esquire where you were a page.

Beads about the neck, and the devil in the heart.

Before the time, great courage; when at the point, great fear.

Before you marry, beware, for it is a knot difficult to untie.

Before you marry, have a house to live in, fields to till, and vines to cut.

Beggars must not be choosers.

Better a quiet death than a public misfortune.

Better be the head of a rat than the tail of a lion.

Better go about than be drowned.

Better go about than fall into the ditch.

Better is rule than rent.

Better is the smoke of my own house than the fire of another's.

Better joy in a cottage than sorrow in a palace.

Better lose a supper than have a hundred physicians.

Better one "Take this," than two "I will give you."

Better rule in hell, than serve in heaven.

Better sit idle than work for naught.

Better suffer a known evil than change for uncertain good.

Better there should be too much than too little.

Better they should say, "There he ran away," than "There he died."

Better to bend than break.

Between brothers, two witnesses and a notary.

Between saying and doing there is a long road.

Between two friends a notary and two witnesses.

Between two Saturday's happen many marvels.

Between two sharpers, the sharpest.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Beware of a reconciled friend as of the devil.

Blessings on him that said, Face about.

Blood boils without fire.

Blow, smith, and you'll get money.

Business today, tomorrow never.

By the street of "By-and-By" one arrives at the house of "Never."

By the thread we unwind the skein.

Call me not fortunate till you see me buried.

Carry bread in your hood to Don Garcia's wedding.

Charity well regulated begins at home.

Chastise one that is worthless, and he will presently hate you.

Cheese from the ewe, milk from the goat, butter from the cow.

Choose a wife on a Saturday rather than a Sunday.

Clay and lime conceal much evil.

Cleaning a blot with blotted fingers maketh a greater.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Clergymen's sons always turn out badly.

Colts by falling, and lads by losing, grow prudent.

Come fish, come frog, all goes into the basket.

Come live with me and you'll know me.

Comes in at the end with a wet sail.

Coming events cast their shadow before.

Command your wealth, else that will command you.

Compare your griefs with other men's and they will seem less.

Copper begets copper, and not ()the labour of) men's bones.

Corsair against corsair nothing is got but empty casks.

Covetousness bursts the bag.

Cow of many, well milked and badly fed.

Cow of many--well milked and badly fed.

Coward against coward, the assailant conquers.

Curses on accounts with relations.

Curses, like chickens, always come home to roost.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Custom becomes law.

Custom in infancy becomes nature in old age.

Custom makes all things easy.

Dance to the tune that is played.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk

Debts are like children; the smaller they are the more noise they make.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, or lawyer.

Deeds are love, and not fine phrases.

Desire beautifies what is ugly.

Discover not your silent money (i.e. your hoarded money) to anybody.

Discreet stops make speedy journeys.

Do not buy a carrier's ass, or marry an innkeeper's daughter.

Do not fret for news, it will grow old and you will know it.

Do not lose honour through fear.

Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.

Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new.

Do not steal a loaf from him that kneads and bakes.

Do not stuff your servant with bread, and he won't ask for cheese.

Do not tell your secrets behind a wall or a hedge.

Do not throw a stone at the mouse and break the precious vase.

Do not throw pearls to swine.

Do what I say well, and not what I do ill.

Do what the friar says, and not what he does.

Do you carry the trough, husband, and I will carry the sieve, which is as heavy as the devil.

Do you want to buy cheap? Buy of a needy fool.

Do you want to see a wolf with young (i.e. an insatiable plunderer)? Marry your daughter.

Don't believe what you see, husband, but only what I tell you.

Don't bet more than you can afford to lose.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Don't kill the man at the count's desire.

Don't offer me advice; give me money.

Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile

Don't scuffle with the potter, for he makes money by the damage.

Don't send away your cat for being a thief.

Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.

Don't spoil the ship for a halfpenny-worth of tar.

Don't stay long when the husband is not at home

Don't stop the way of a bull or of a current of air.

Don't take any wooden nickles.

Drink wine upon figs.

Dung is no saint, but where it falls it works miracles.

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire

Eating sets the head to rights.

Either rich or hanged.

Either the ass will die, or he that goads it.

Either you sink or you swim.

Enjoy your little while the fool seeks for more.

Entreaties to get him to sing, and entreaties to leave off.

Entreaty and right do the deed.

Even a sick man shuns death.

Even the best writer has to erase.

Every cask smells of the wine it contained.

Every cock crows on his own dunghill.

Every cock is proud on his own dung hill.

Every country has its custom.

Every fool is pleased with his bauble.

Every law is broken to become a king.

Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Every man should support himself, and not hang upon another.

Every one feels the cold according as he is clad.

Every one in his own house, and God in all men's.

Every one is wise when the mischief is done.

Every one sneezes as God pleases.

Every one speaks of the fair as he himself finds it.

Every one wishes to bring water to his own mill, and leave his neighbour's dry.

Every potter praises his pot, especially if cracked.

Every season brings its own joy.

Every woman has something of a witch about her.

Everybody's friends and nobody's friend is all one.

Everything in its season, and turnips in Advent.

Expect not at another's hand what you can do by your own.

Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best.

Fall sick, and you will see who is your friend and who not.

Fancy surpasses beauty.

Fast as the hare runs, the greyhound outruns her, since he catches her.

Feet that are used to move cannot remain quiet.

Fire and love do not say "Go to your work."

Fire, fire, many pots on. and one pea in them all.

First cobwebs, then chains.

First come to the mill, first grind.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue

Flying from the bull he fell into the river.

Folly is the most incurable of maladies.

Folly is the product of all countries and ages.

Fond of lawsuits, little wealth, Fond of doctors, little health.

Fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors, little health; fond of friars, little honour.

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse; Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.

Fools and bairns should never see half-done work.

Fools and obstinate men make rich lawyers.

Fools and the perverse fill the lawyers'purse.

For a good companion good company.

For all one's early rising, it dawns none the sooner.

For better for worse they have married me.

For evil tongues, scissors.

For the want of worthy men they made my father alcade.

For want of a nail the shoe is lost.

For whom does the blind man's wife adorn herself?

For whom sword and courage are not enough, corslet and lance will not be enough.

Fortune aids the bold.

Foster a raven and it will peck out your eyes.

Four things put a man beside himself--women, tobacco, cards, and wine.

Fox's broth, cold and scalding.

Fresh port and new wine, send a Christian to the churchyard. (Kill a man before his time.)

Friday pretexts for not fasting (meaning pleas of indisposition for not eating fish.)

Friendship broken may be soldered, but never made whole.

From a fallen tree, all make kindling.

From a praying young man, and a fasting old man, God preserve my cloak.

From a silent man, and a dog that does not bark, deliver us.

From a silent person remove your dwelling.

From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn

From long journeys long lies.

From my gossip's bread a large piece for my godson.

From smooth water God preserve me, from rough I will preserve myself.

From snow, whether baked or boiled, you will get nothing but water.

From that dust comes this mud.

Gifts break (or dissolve) rocks.

Give a clown your foot, and he'll take your hand.

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

Give a traitor good words and you make him loyal.

Give me a seat, and I will make myself room to lie down.

Give me the ass that carries me in preference to the horse that throws me.

Give orders and do no more, and nothing will come of it.

Giving alms never lessens the purse.

Go in God's name, for he takes a loaf of mine.

Go not every evening to your brother's house.

Go not with every ailment to the doctor, with every plea to the lawyer, or with every thirst to the can.

Go to bed supperless and you will wake without debt.

Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.

Go to friends for advice; to women for pity; to strangers for charity; to relatives for nothing.

Go to your aunt's house, but not every day.

God comes to see without ringing the bell.

God cures, and the doctor takes the fee.

God defend you from the devil, the eye of a harlot, and the turn of a die.

God delays but doesn't forget.

God does not smite with both hands.

God gives almonds to one who has no teeth.

God gives almonds to those who have no teeth.

God gives wings to the ant that she may perish the sooner.

God grant me to argue with those who understand me.

God grant me to contend with those that understand me.

God grant you good fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little.

God grant, dear wife, that this son be ours.

God helps the early riser.

God keep you from "It is too late."

God made us, and we admire ourselves.

God makes the back to the burden.

God take you, pound (of flax), drunk out and not yet spun.

God will listen to you whatever cloak you wear.

God will provide, but a good bundle of straw will not be amiss.

God writes straight with crooked lines.

God, healeth, and the physician hath the thanks.

Good is the fowl which another rears.

Good luck makes its way in by elbowing.

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Good wine needs no crier.

Good words and bad deeds deceive both wise and simple.

Good words and no deeds are rushes and reeds.

Good words fill not a sack.

Good, good, good, but God keep my ass out of his rye.

Good, that comes too late, is good as nothing.

Goodness shouts. Evil whispers

Growing old is no more than another bad habit.

Halfway is twelve miles when you have fourteen miles to go.

Happy is the doctor who is called in at the decline of an illness.

Happy the house in which there is no shaven crown.

Have a bill to pay at Easter, and your Lent will be short.

He buys well who is not called a donkey.

He can do but little who cannot threaten another.

He cannot find water in the sea.

He did not invent gunpowder.

He does not a little who burns his house: he frightens the rats, and warms himself.

He expects to find water at the first stroke of the spade.

He falls into the pit who leads another into it.

He gathers up ashes and scatters flour.

He goes safely to trial whose father is a judge.

He has much to do who would please everybody.

He is a great simpleton who starves himself to feed another.

He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.

He is blind enough who cannot see through a sieve.

He is in safety who rings the tocsin.

He is out of danger who rings the alarm-bell.

He is your friend who gets you out of a fray.

He knows it as well as his Lord's Prayer.

He loses his market who has nothing to sell.

He that does not lie, does not come of good blood.

He that doth not rob makes not a robe or garment.

He that eats his fowl alone may saddle his horse alone.

He that eats the king's geese shall be choked with the feathers.

He that has a good harvest must be content with a few thistles.

He that has an hour's start will not be hanged.

He that has an ill name is half hanged.

He that has no ill luck grows weary of good luck.

He that is more civil than usual, either wants to cozen you or has need of you.

He that is not gallant at twenty, strong at thirty, rich at forty, or experienced at fifty, will never be gallant, strong, rich, or prudent.

He that is not sensible of his loss has lost nothing.

He that is rich will not be called a fool.

He that makes one basket can make a hundred.

He that marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown into the dish.

He that minds his business at home, will not be accused of taking part in the fray.

He that neglects time, time will neglect.

He that stirs honey will have some of it stick to him.

He that ties well, unties well.

He that trusts a faithless friend, has a good witness against him.

He that will not when he can, cannot when he will.

He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.

He that would be healthy must wear his winter clothes in summer.

He that would be healthy, must eat temperately, and sup early.

He that would have a beautiful wife should choose her on a Saturday.

He to whom God gives no sons, the devil gives nephews.

He who always tells me a lie never cheats me.

He who asks the fewest favours is the best received.

He who at thirty has no brains, will never purchase an estate.

He who at twenty understands nothing, at thirty knows nothing, and at forty has nothing, will lead a wretched old age.

He who avoids the temptation avoids the sin.

He who begins badly, ends badly.

He who builds a house, or marries, is left with a lank purse.

He who buts a horse buys care.

He who buys and sells does not feel what he spends.

He who catches one fish is a fisherman.

He who comes first grinds first.

He who dances well goes from wedding to wedding.

He who delays, gathers.

He who denies everything confesses everything.

He who divides gets the worst share.

He who does good to you either dies or goes away.

He who does no more than another is no better than another.

He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself.

He who does not look before lags behind.

He who does not mix with the crowd knows nothing.

He who does not pick up a pin cares nothing for his wife.

He who does not repair his gutter has a whole house to repair.

He who does not show himself, is overlooked.

He who does not speak, God does not hear.

He who does not tire, achieves.

He who does not whip the child does not mend the youth.

He who does what he likes, does not what he ought.

He who doubts nothing knows nothing.

He who dresses ion others'clothes will be undressed on the highway.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

He who eats and puts by, has sufficient for two meals.

He who eats the meat let him pick the bone.

He who finds fault wants to buy.

He who gives to the public, gives to no one.

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.

He who goes far from home to marry, goes either to deceive or be deceived.

He who goes with wolves learns to howl.

He who grasps all loses all.

He who grasps at much holds fast little.

He who greases his cart-wheels helps his oxen.

He who greases his wheels, helps his oxen.

He who hangs out a branch wants to sell his wine.

He who has a bad wife can expect no happiness that can be so called.

He who has a good wife can bear any evil.

He who has a handsome wife, a castle on the frontier, or a vineyard on the roadside, is never without war.

He who has a son grown up should not call another a thief.

He who has a tongue goes to Rome.

He who has a trade may travel through the world.

He who has been first a novice and then an abbot, knows what the boys do behind the altar.

He who has been stung by the scorpion is frightened at its shadow.

He who has both money and bread, may choose with whom his daughter to wed.

He who has but one coat cannot lend it.

He who has daughters to marry, let him give them silk to spin.

He who has enemies, let him not sleep.

He who has got four and spends five, has no occasion for a purse.

He who has lost his oxen is always hearing bells.

He who has lost his reputation is a dead man among the living.

He who has no head wants no hat.

He who has no house of his own is everywhere at home.

He who has no voice in the valley, will have none in the council.

He who has no wife, is for thrashing her daily; but he that has one, takes care of her.

He who has servants has unavoidable enemies.

He who has sheep has fleeces.

He who has shipped the devil, must carry him over the sound.

He who has to deal with a blockhead has need of much brains.

He who has two masters to serve must lie to one of them.

He who helps everybody, helps nobody.

He who is contented is not always rich.

He who is everybody's friend is either very poor or very rich.

He who is feared gets more than his own.

He who is in the mud likes to get another into it.

He who is silent gains store.

He who keeps his own secret avoids much mischief.

He who knows little soon tells it.

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.

He who laid a snare for me has fallen into it.

He who lives a long life must pass through much evil.

He who lives in hopes, breakfasts ill and sups worse.

He who looks demurely trust not with your money.

He who loves Bertrand loves his dog.

He who loves me loves my dog too.

He who loves Peter won't harm his dog.

He who loves well is slow to forget.

He who loves well, obeys well.

He who made fun of the old man, laughed at first and cried afterwards.

He who makes a law should keep it.

He who makes light of his enemy dies by his hand.

He who marries ill, is long in becoming widowed.

He who marrieth does well, but he who marrieth not, better.

He who measures oil greases his hands.

He who peeps through a hole will discover his dole.

He who pledges or promises runs in debt.

He who pours water hastily into a bottle spills more than goes in.

He who promises incurs a debt.

He who receives the offerings let him ring the bells.

He who reforms, God assists.

He who remains in the mill grinds, not he who goes to and fro.

He who rides behind another does not saddle when he will.

He who saves, finds.

He who says what he likes, hears what he don't like.

He who seeks, finds.

He who serves is not free.

He who serves many masters must neglect some of them.

He who sleeps much, learns little.

He who sows brambles must not go barefoot.

He who sows brambles reaps thorns.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

He who sows well, reaps well.

He who spits above himself will have it fall on his face.

He who steals once is never trusty.

He who strives to do, does more than he who has the power.

He who stumbles and does not fall mends his pace.

He who stumbles twice over one stone deserves to break his shins.

He who takes the wrong road must make his journey twice over.

He who talks much is sometimes right.

He who tells his own secret will hardly keep another's.

He who threatens to strike, and does not, is afraid.

He who trifles with his enemy dies by his hand.

He who wants a mule without fault must walk on foot.

He who wants to be rich in a year comes to the gallows in half a year.

He who wants to catch fish must not mind a wetting.

He who wants to kill his dog only has to say he is mad.

He who was first an acolyte, and afterwards an abbot or curate, knows what the boys do behind the altar.

He who works on the highway will have many advisers.

He who would cheat the fox must rise early.

He who would take must give.

He who would thrive must follow the church, the sea, or the king's service.

He whose house is tiled with glass should not throw stones at his neighbour's.

He will never worship well the image on the altar who knew it when it was a trunk of wood in the garden.

Health and cheerfulness make beauty; finery and cosmetics cost money and lie.

Hear first, and speak afterwards.

Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.

Him who errs, forgive once, but never twice.

His bread fell into the honey.

His courage oozed out at his fingers'ends.

Honey was not made for the mouth of the ass.

How shall the enemy of the bride speak well of the wedding?

However bright the sun may shine, leave not you cloak at home.

However foul it be, never say, Of this water I will not drink.

Hunger and cold give a man up to his enemy.

Husband, don't see; wife, be blind.

Husband, you are a cuckold; wife, who told you so?

Hush, brideswoman, I knew all that before.

I a lazy lout, you a lazy lout, marry me, Antonia.

I am like you and you like me. the devil united us.

I am neither at the ford nor the bridge.

I broke my leg, perhaps for my good.

I dance to the tune that is played.

I do not tell thee what thou art, thou wilt tell it thyself.

I don't count them to you, wife, but a hog makes twelve puddings.

I don't want it, I don't want it, but put it into my hood.

I don't want the cheese; I just want out of the trap.

I have a good jacket in France.

I know well what I say when I ask for bread.

I know what I know, but will say nothing about it.

I left what I knew for what I heard praised, and repented.

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

I mistress and you miss, who is to sweep the house?

I neither give nor take, like a Jew on the Sabbath.

I never was satisfied with "I will, I will." One "take this" is better than two "I will give you."

I perfectly feel even at my fingers end.

I say it to you, daughter; hear it, daughter-in-law.

I stubborn and you stubborn, who is to carry the load?

I thought I had no husband, and I eat up the stew.

I thought to cross myself, and I put out my eye.

I'll marry, and eat the prime of the pot, and sit down first.

If folly were a pain, there would be groaning in every house.

If I am a fool, put your finger in my mouth.

If I die, I forgive you; if I live, we shall see.

If love be timid it is not true.

If lying were a capital crime, the hangman would work overtime.

If one, two, three say you are an ass, put on a tail.

If only I were a bird! Ah, but eating caterpillars?

If people lead, the leaders will follow.

If the child cries let the mother hush it, and if it will not be hushed let it cry.

If the eyes don't see, the heart won't break.

If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.

If the pitcher knocks against a stone, woe to the pitcher; and if the stone knocks against the pitcher, woe to the pitcher.

If the rings are lost, here are the fingers still.

If the sky falls there will be pots broken.

If the sky falls we shall catch larks.

If the sky falls, hold up your hands.

If there be no remedy, why worry?

If there were no receiver there would be no thief.

If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves.

If they say you are good, ask you self if it be true.

If this ball does not stick to the wall it will at least leave a mark.

If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.

If thy heart fail thee, why then climb at all?

If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor

If you eat it up at supper, you cannot have it for breakfast.

If you have a friend who is a doctor, make your bow and send him to the house of your enemy.

If you have a loitering servant, set his dinner before him and send him on an errand.

If you listen at a hole, you will hear ill of yourself as well as others.

If you love me, John, your acts will tell me so.

If you pay not a servant his wages then he will pay himself.

If you pay what you owe, what you're worth you'll know.

If you play with fire you get burnt.

If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if ypu employ him, don't suspect him

If you want a fine wife, don't pick her on a Sunday.

If you want good service, serve yourself.

If you want to be dead, wash your head and go to bed.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

If you want to be revenged, hold your tongue.

If you want to beat a dog, say he eat your iron.

If you want to know secrets, seek for them in trouble or in pleasure.

If you want to know what a ducat is worth, try to borrow one.

If you want to know what a man is really like, notice how he acts when he loses money.

If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.

If you want to thrash your wife, ask her for a drink of water in the sun.

If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep

If you wish to be well served, serve yourself.

If you would acquire fame, let not the sun shine on you in bed.

If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else

If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.

If you would be well served, serve yourself.

If you would live healthy, be old early.

If you would live in health, be old early.

If you would make a thief honest, trust him.

Ill luck enters by fathoms and departs by inches.

Ill-luck upon ill-luck, and a stone for a pillow.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

In a smith's house the knife is wooden.

In a wood don't walk behind another.

In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse.

In hunting and in love you begin when you like and leave off when you can.

In less than a thousand years we shall all be bald.

In my own house I am a king.

In the bagpiper's house they are all dancers.

In the garden more grows, than the gardener sows.

In the report, of riches and goodness always bate one half.

In the rich woman's house she always commands; he never.

In the street of by-and-by one arrives at the house of "never".

Ingratitude is the daughter of pride.

Invite your son-in-law to a fowl, and he will take away the lemon.

It fares ill with the house where the spinning-wheel commands the sword.

It goes ill in the house where the hen sings and the cock is silent.

It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another's.

It is a loss of soap to wash the ass's head.

It is a wise son that knows his own father.

It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands.

It is better to be born a beggar than a fool.

It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance.

It is better to leap over the ditch than trust to the pleadings of good men.

It is better to lose than lose more.

It is better to strive with a stubborn ass than to carry the wood on one's back.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

It is fair and just to cheat the cheater.

It is good to have friends, even in hell.

It is in putting it into the oven that the loaf is made crooked.

It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish.

It is not in the pilot's power to prevent the wind from blowing.

It is not necessary to fall into a well to know its depth.

It is not the fine, but the coarse and ill-spun that breaks.

It is not the hook or the rod, but the bait that lures.

It is not the load but the overload that kills.

It is not the same thing to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring.

It is nothing, they are only thrashing my husband.

It is the bait that lures, not the fisherman or the rod.

It is very savoury to eat scot free.

It little avails the unfortunate to be brave.

It will all come out in the soap-suds.

It's better to arrive on time than to be invited.

It's dogged as does it.

It's enough to make a parson swear, or a quaker kick his mother.

It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring.

It's not worth crying over spilt milk.

Jest so that it may not turn to earnest.

Jesting costs money.

Justice, but not in my own house.

Kill and thou wilt be killed, and he will be killed who kills thee.

Know, cabbages, that there is spinach in the stew.

Knowledge, teaching and words may be deeds.

Large thongs of another man's leather.

Laws go the way kings direct.

Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.

Leave the jest at its best.

Let every man mind his own business.

Let every sheep hang by it own foot.

Let every tub stand on its own bottom.

Let him not complain of being cheated who buys cloth by the pattern.

Let him play the instrument who knows how.

Let him that has a mouth not say to another, Blow.

Let him who does not know you buy you.

Let it be a husband, though it be but a log.

Let no one say, "Of this water I will not drink."

Let no one take a pawn that eats.

Let no shovel-beaked bird ever enter your yard.

Let the dog bark so he don't bite me.

Let the miracle be wrought, though it be by the devil.

Let the sun shine on me, for I care not for the moon.

Let them be birds. (Small eggs make little soup.)

Let them talk of men, and beg of me.

Let them whip me in the market-place, provided it be not known at home.

Let there be food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it.

Let there be no lack of food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it.

Let there be writing before you pay, and receipt before you write.

Let those pater nosters be for your own soul. (Ironical, against swearing.)

Let what is lost go for God's sake.

Let your heart guide your head in evil matters.

Like a collier's sack, bad without and worse within.

Like a parakeet that says what he knows but doesn't know what he says.

Like Banbury tinkers that in mending one hole make three.

Like blood, like good, and like age, make the happiest marriage.

Lip courtesy avails much and costs little.

Listeners hear no good of themselves.

Listeners never hear any good of themselves.

Little and often fills the purse.

Little beard, little modesty.

Little bird, little nest.

Little birds may pick a dead lion.

Little birds that can sing and won't sing must be made to sing.

Little by little one goes far.

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.

Live your own life, for you will die your own death

Long life to the conqueror.

Lose no rights, and commit no extortions.

Losers are always in the wrong.

Love is like war, begin when you like and leave off when you can.

Love is like war; begin when you like and leave off when you can.

Love one that does not love you, answer one that does not call you, and you will run a fruitless race.

Love, grief, and money cannot be kept secret.

Love, pain, and money cannot be kept secret; they soon betray themselves.

Lovers think that others have no eyes.

Luck comes to those who look after it.

Lying and gossiping go hand in hand.

Mad love--I for you, and you for another.

Make a bridge of silver for the flying enemy.

Make good flour, and do not blow the trumpet.

Make way for a madman and a bull.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Man is fire, woman is tow; the devil comes with a bellows.

Manana is often the busiest day of the week.

Manual play, clown's play.

Many kiss hands they would fain see chopped off.

Mary Busybody never wants a bad day, and Mary Drone has God to give and bring to her.

May God not so prosper our friends that they forget us.

May the man be damned and never grow fat, Who wears two faces under one hat.

Michael is quits; he lost a ducat and gained a rabbit.

Miguel, Miguel, you have no bees, and yet sell honey.

Mildness governs more than anger.

Milk the cow that standeth still.

Money gets money.

Money soothes more than a gentleman's words.

Money turns bad into good.

Money will do more than my lord's letter.

Moses (i.e. a Jew) does not play because he has not the means.

Mother, marry me, marry me, or the gull will fly away with me.

Mother, what is marrying? Spinning, bearing children, and crying, daughter.

Much talking, much erring.

My daughter-in-law tucked up her sleeves, and upset the kettle into the fire.

My life and soul (are at your service), but not my pack-saddle.

My neighbour's goat gives more milk than mine.

My neighbour's hen lays more eggs than mine.

My sister's son is a kinsman beyond dispute.

My teeth are nearer than my kindred.

My teeth before my relations.

My word is my bond.

Nae man can baith sup an'blaw thegither.

Name not a rope in his house that hanged himself.

Needle and thread are half clothing.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Neither a good friar for friend, nor a bad one for enemy.

Neither handsome enough to kill, nor ugly enough to frighten.

Neither serve one who has been a servant, nor beg of one who has been a beggar.

Neither sign a paper without reading it, nor drink water without seeing it.

Never advise a man to go to the wars, or to marry.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Never ask of him who has, but of him you know wishes you well.

Never ask pardon before you are accused.

Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down

Never marry a widow unless her first husband was hanged.

Never offer your hen for sale on a rainy day.

Never put your thumbs between two grinders.

Never spread your corn to dry before the door of a saintly man.

New loves drive out the old.

New trappings to an old mule.

Night brings counsel.

No flies light on a boiling pot.

No fly gets into a shut mouth.

No Jew a fool; no hare lazy.

No joy without alloy.

No king was ever a traitor, or pope excommunicated.

No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full.

No need to seek shelter for an old ox.

No one would be an innkeeper but for money.

No relation is poor.

No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken.

No rogue like the godly rogue.

No woman is ugly when she is dressed.

No wonder if he breaks his head who stumbles twice over one stone.

Nobody sows a thing that will not sell.

Not all things have to be scrutinized, nor all friends tested, not all enemies exposed and denounced.

Not he gives who likes, but who has.

Not to wish to recover is a mortal symptom.

Nothing is lost on a journey by stopping to pray or to feed your horse.

Now that I have an ewe and a lamb, every one says to me: Good morrow, Peter.

Nurse, you are mistress whilst the child sucks, and after that nothing.

Of brothers-in-law and red dogs few are good.

Of evils, the least.

Of other men's leather large thongs.

Of soups and loves the first are the best.

Of the malady a man fears, he dies.

Of your wife and your tried friend believe nothing but what you know for certain.

Old as is the boat it may cross the ferry once.

On a hot day muffle yourself more.

On a long journey even a straw weighs heavy.

On dry land even brackish water is good.

One ass among many monkeys is grinned at by all.

One bee is better than a thousand flies.

One cannot blow and swallow at the same time.

One drink is just right; two is too many; three are too few.

One eye on the frying-pan and the other on the cat.

One falsehood leads to another.

One grievance borne, another follows.

One knavery is met by another.

One lawyer will make work for another.

One love drives out another.

One man beats the bush, another catcheth the bird.

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it

One starts the game and another bags it.

One stroke on the nail and a hundred on the horseshoe.

One trick is met by another.

One volunteer is worth two pressed men.

One wedding brings another.

One wolf does not bite another.

One's prog does not clog.

Order and do it, and you will be rid of anxiety.

Other folks'cares kill the ass.

Paper and ink and little justice.

Pay what you owe, and be cured of your complaint.

Peace and patience, and death with penitence.

Peralvillo justice: hang a man first and try him afterwards.

Peter is so godly that God does not improve his condition.

Peter pinches me, and I like it.

Play with an ass and he will flirt his tail in your face.

Play with the fool at home, and he will play with you abroad.

Play's gude, while it is play.

Please the eye, and pick the purse.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

Plough deep and you will have plenty of corn.

Plough deep whilst sluggards sleep, And you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Plough or not plough, you must pay your rent.

Plough wet or dry, and you will not have to kiss your neighbour's breech.

Pluck it from among the thistles, and we will take it off your hands.

Possession and good right, with lance in hand.

Pound the garlic, Pedro, whilst I grate the cheese.

Pour not water on a drowned mouse.

Poverty does not destroy virtue, nor does wealth bestow it.

Poverty is no sin, but it is a branch of roguery.

Poverty is no sin.

Poverty is not a crime.

Poverty is not perversity.

Praise yourself, basket, for I want to sell you.

Pray to God, but hammer away.

Prison and Lent were made for the poor.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Prosperity forgets father and mother.

Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives.

Put a beggar into your barn and he will make himself your heir.

Raise ravens and they will peck our your eye.

Rather mulberry than almond. (The almond-tree is in blossom earlier than the mulberry.)

Rats do not play tricks with kittens.

Renounce the devil, and thou shalt wear a shabby coat.

Right or wrong, 'tis our house up to the roof.

Right or wrong, God aid our purpose.

Right overstrained turns to wrong.

Rise early and watch, labour and catch.

Said the frying pay to the kettle, Stand off, black bottom.

Salt split is never all gathered.

Say before they say.

Seat yourself in your place and you will not be made to quit it.

See how he has risen from a mayor to a hangman.

See that you tie so that you can untie.

See, hear, and hold your tongue.

Sell publicly and buy privately.

Sense comes with age.

Serve a lord and you'll know what is grief.

Set a peasant on horseback, and he forgets both God and man.

Set a sprat to catch a mackerel.

Seven brothers in a council make wrong right.

Seven is company, and nine confusion. (Alluding to a dinner party.)

She is fond of greens who kisses the gardener.

She is good and honoured who is dead and buried.

She is good who is close to the fire and does not burn.

She is nether fish nor fowl.

She who loves an ugly man thinks him handsome.

Shoemakers go to mass and pray that sheep may die.

Shoot at a pigeon and kill a crow.

Short hose must have long points.

Shut your door, and you will make your neighbour a good woman.

Silence and look out, we shall catch both hen and chicks.

Silent water is dangerous water.

Silly sheep, where one goes, all go.

Since I wronged you, I have never liked you.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

Since we have loaves let us not look for cakes.

Since you have scolding me, I have counted a hundred and twenty holes in that nutmeg grater.

Skilled hands eat trouts.

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

Sleep over it, and you will come to a resolution.

Smoke, a dripping roof, and a scolding wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life.

So money gets money.

So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live long.

So you tell me there are wolves on the mountain, and foxes in the valley.

So yourself be good, a fig for your grandfather.

Soft and fair goes far.

Some day Peter will command as much as his master.

Some go to law, for the wagging of a straw.

Some have the fame, and other card the wool.

Sour wine, old bacon, and rye bread keep a house rich.

Sow corn in clay, and plant vines in sand.

Sow dry and set wet.

Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

Stars are not seen by sunshine.

Stealing would be a nice thing, if thieves were hanged by the girdle.

Steel whets steel.

Such awkward things will happen as going into the great square and coming back without ears.

Sugared words generally prove bitter.

Sunday's wooing draws to ruin.

Take away the motive, and the sin is taken away.

Take heed of an ox before, as an ass behind, and a monk on all sides.

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Take hold of a good minute.

Take in laundry before you take in partners.

Take the middle of the way and thou wilt not fall.

Take the will for the deed.

Take what you want, then pay for it.

Taking out and not putting in soon reaches the bottom.

Talk as you go, husband, to the gallows.

Talk little and well, and you will be looked upon as somebody.

Talk much, and err much.

Talk of sporting, and buy game in the market.

Talking is easy, action difficult.

Tell a lie, and you will bring out the truth.

Tell her she is handsome, and you will turn her head.

Tell it her once, and the devil will tell it her ten times.

Tell it well, or say nothing.

Tell me who you live with, and I will tell you who you are.

Tell not all you know, nor judge of all you see, if you would live in peace.

Tell your affairs in the market-place, and one will call them black and another white.

Tell your friend a lie; and if he keeps it secret, tell him the truth.

Tell your own story first.

That which covers thee discovers thee.

That which is cheap is dear.

The absent were never in the right.

The account is correct, but not a sixpense appears.

The act of treachery is liked, but not he that does it.

The ant gets wings that she may perish sooner.

The ass dead, the barley at his tail.

The ass knows well in whose face be brays.

The ass of many owners is food for wolves.

The bacon of paradise for the married man that does not repent.

The bad barber leaves neither hair nor skin.

The bad man always suspects knavery.

The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor.

The beast that goes well is never without some one to try his paces.

The beginning of health is to know the disease.

The best cast at dice is not to play.

The best cloth has uneven threads.

The best cook drops a whole tomato.

The best feed of a horse is his master's eye.

The best mirror is an old friend.

The bow that is always bent slackens or breaks.

The bowels support the heart, and not the heart the bowels.

The boy is father to the man.

The brain, that sows not corn, plants thistles.

The busy fly is in every man's dish.

The busy man is troubled with but one devil, the idle man by a thousand.

The buyer has need of a hundred eyes. the seller but one.

The cask full, the mother-in-law drunk.

The cask smells of the wine it contains.

The cat always leaves her mark upon her friend.

The cat is friendly, but scratches.

The church, the sea, or the royal household, for whoever would thrive.

The cross on his breast, and the devil in his acts.

The cross on his breast, and the devil in his heart.

The day I did not make my toilette, there came to my house one I did not expect.

The day I did not sweep the house, there came to it one I did not expect.

The day you marry 'tis either kill or cure.

The dearest child of all is the dead one.

The deceived sheep that went for wool and came back shorn.

The devil gets into the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

The devil is seldom outshot in his own bow.

The devil is so fond of his son that he put out his eye.

The dog that has its bitch in town never barks well.

The dress does not make the friar.

The drowning man is not troubled by rain.

The drunkard and the glutton come to poverty, and drowsiness clothes a man with rags.

The earth hides as it takes, the physician's mistakes.

The envious man's face grows sharp and his eyes big.

The epicure puts his purse into his belly.

The evil which issues from thy mouth falls into thy bosom.

The evil wound is cured, but not the evil name.

The exception proves the rule.

The exception which proves the rule.

The father of a saint, the son of a sinner.

The fault is as great as he that commits it.

The fear of women is the basis of good health.

The fertile field becomes sterile without rest.

The fierce ox becomes tame on strange ground.

The fire well knows whose cloak burns.

The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.

The first duty of a soldier is obedience.

The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.

The first wife is a broom, and the second a lady.

The fist loss is the best.

The fox does not do as much mischief in a year as it pays for in an hour.

The fox is knowing, but more knowing he who catches him.

The fox knows well with whom he plays tricks.

The fox that tarries long is on the watch for prey.

The friar who begs for God begs for two.

The full-fed cow makes company of her tail.

The gallows takes its own.

The gardener's dog, neither full nor hungry.

The gardener's feet do no harm to the garden.

The gentle lamb sucks any ewe as well as its mother; the surly lamb sucks neither its own nor another.

The girl as she is taught, the flax as it is wrought.

The glass-dealer's horses fell out, and he looked on to see which kicked hardest.

The goat can't well cover herself with her tail.

The golden ass passes everywhere.

The gossips fall out and tell each other truths.

The green burns for the dry, and the righteous pay for sinners.

The grey mare is the better horse.

The gutter by dropping wears the stone.

The heart is no traitor.

The hen lays upon an egg.

The honest man enjoys the theft.

The horse thinks one thing, and his rider another.

The horseshoe that clatters wants a nail.

The hunchback does not see his own hump, but sees his companion's.

The Jew ruins himself with passovers, the Moor with wedding feasts, and the Christian with lawsuits.

The keys at the girdle, the dog in the larder.

The king goes as far as he can, not so far as he would.

The king likes the treachery, but not the traitor.

The kite's malady, its wings broken and its beak sound.

The land a man knows is his mother.

The lazy servant to save one step takes eight.

The leader follows in front.

The lean dog is all fleas.

The letter enters with blood.

The liar is sooner caught than the cripple.

The lion is not so fierce as he is painted.

The lion's not half so fierce as he's painted.

The loyal man lives no longer than the traitor pleases.

The magistrate's son gets out of every scrape.

The man who does not love a horse cannot love a woman.

The mare's kicks are caresses to the horse.

The master's foot is manure for the estate.

The mill gains by gong, and not by standing still.

The month loses its own, but not the year.

The more a woman admires her face, the more she ruins her house.

The more one has the more one wants.

The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is.

The more you court a clown the statelier he grows.

The more you get the more you want.

The most cautious passes for the most chaste.

The Mother of God appears to fools.

The mother of mischief is no bigger than a midge's wing.

The mother reckons well, but the child reckons better.

The mother who spoils her child, fattens a serpent.

The mother-in-law must be entreated, and the pot must be let stand.

The mountain labored and brought forth a mouse.

The mouse that knows but one hole is soon caught by the cat.

The mouse that only trusts to one poor hole, Can never be a mouse of any soul.

The mouth and the purse, shut.

The mouth that says yes says no.

The oaths of one who loves a woman are not to be believed.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely apparent takes longer.

The official who can't lie may as well be out of the world.

The old for want of ability, and the young for want of knowledge, let things be lost.

The old man at home, and the young abroad, lie after the same fashion.

The old wife, if she does not serve for a pot, serves for a cover.

The one-eyed man is a king in the country of the blind.

The only chaste woman is the one who has not been chased.

The ox comes to the yoke at the call of his feeder.

The ox spoke and said "Moo."

The ox that butted me tossed me into a good place.

The ox without a bell is soon lost.

The paunch warm, the foot sleepy.

The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it leaves its handle or its mouth.

The poor man has his crop destroyed by hail every year.

The poor-houses are filled with the honestest people.

The rat that has but one hole is soon caught.

The rat that knows but one hole is soon caught by the cat.

The rich man transgresses the law, and the poor man is punished.

The righteous man sins before an open chest.

the rotten apple spoils its companion.

The scalded cat dreads cold water.

The secret in swimming is to know how to take care of your clothes.

The secret of patience is doing something else in the meantime.

The servant wench that has a mother in town swoons seven times a day.

The sharper soon cheats the covetous man.

The sharper the storm, the sooner it's over.

The shirt is nearer than the frock.

The smith's dog sleeps at the noise of the hammer, and wakes at the grinding of teeth.

The snail, to be rid of annoyances, bartered its eyes for horns.

The son of an ass brays twice a day.

The spider's web lets the rat escape and catches the fly.

The spot will come out in the washing.

The squeaking wheel gets the grease.

The stew mixed by many is ill-seasoned and worse cooked.

The stew that boils much loses flavour.

The stolen ox sometimes puts his head out of the stall.

The stone is hard and the drop is small, but a hole is made by the constant fall.

The thorn comes into the world point foremost.

The thread breaks where it is thinnest.

The threatener loses the opportunity of vengeance.

The threshold says nothing but what it hears of the hinge.

The tide will fetch away what the ebb brings.

The tiger that has once tasted blood is never sated with the taste of it.

The tired ox plants his foot firmly.

The tongue of a bad friend cuts more than a knife.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

The wages of sin is death.

The wedding feast is not made with mushrooms only.

The well-bred hound, if he does not hunt to-day will hunt to-morrow.

The well-dressed woman draws her husband away from another woman's door.

The well-fed sheep makes a cloak of its tail.

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion

The winter is gone, the spring is come, a fly for those who us good have done.

The wise hand does not all that the tongue says.

The wise knows that he does not know; the ignoramus thinks he knows.

The wise man does not hang his knowledge on a hook.

The wolf and the fox are both in one story.

The wolf changes his teeth but not his disposition.

The wolf commits no mischief at home.

The wolf does that in the course of the week which hinders him from going to mass on Sunday.

The wolf loses his teeth, but not his inclinations.

The wolf picks up the ass's fleas by moonlight.

The woman in finery, the house in filth, but the doorway swept.

The world is a round gulf, and he was cannot swim must go to the bottom.

The worst ewe dungs in the milking-pail.

The worst of a lawsuit is that out of one there grow a hundred.

The worst pig gets the best acorn.

The wrong doer is never without a pretext.

There are all honest men, but my cloak is not to be found.

There are eyes that fall in love with bleared ones.

There are more threatened than hurt.

There is little use in watching a bad woman.

There is luck in leisure.

There is luck in odd numbers.

There is measure in all things.

There is mony a true tale tauld in jest.

There is never a great dunghill at a sportsman's door.

There is no answer for God out of my house, and What have you to do with my wife?

There is no beast so savage but sports with its mate.

There is no better patch than one off the same cloth.

There is no better surgeon than one with many scars.

There is no choicer morsel than that which is stolen.

There is no disinterested gift.

There is no house without its hush! hush!

There is no lock, if the pick is of gold.

There is no mother like the mother that bore us.

There is no pleasure but palls, and the more so if it costs nothing.

There is no pot so ugly but finds its cover.

There is no such witness as a good measure of wine.

There is no tax upon lying.

There is no thief without a receiver.

There is no worse apprentice than the one who doesn't want to know.

There is not a pair of ears for every Jew.

There is some distance between Peter and Peter.

There is truth in wine.

There would be no ill word if it were not ill taken.

There's no argument like that of the stick.

There's no making a good cloak of bad cloth.

They may whip me in the market-place, so it be not known at home.

They took away the mirror from me because I was ugly, and gave it to the blind woman.

They turn night into day.

They two agreed like two cats in a gutter.

They whip the cat, if our mistress does not spin.

They who don't keep goats and yet sell kids, where do they get them?

They who don't kill pigs must not expect black-puddings.

This is the milkmaid's tale.

Though my father-in-law is a good man, I do not like a dog with a bell.

Though the speaker be a fool, let the hearer be wise.

Though the sun shines, leave not your cloak at home.

Though you are a prudent old man, do not despise counsel.

Though you see me with this coat, I have another up the mountain.

Though your bloodhound be gentle, don't bite him on the lip.

Threatened men eat bread.

Threatened men live long.

Three daughters and their mother, four devils for the father.

Three men helping one another will do as much as six men singly.

Three Spaniards, four opinions.

Three strikes and you are out.

Three things are not to be trusted; a cow's horn, a dog's tooth, and a horse's hoof.

Three things kill a man: a scorching son, suppers, and cares.

Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all, A sting, and honey, and a body small.

Three who held each other are as good as six.

Through not spending enough we spend too much.

To a depraved taste sweet is bitter.

To a hard knot a hard wedge.

To a hasty demand a leisure reply.

To a son-in-law and a hog you need show the way but once.

To a woman and a magpie tell your secrets in the marketplace.

To be a merchant, the art consists more in getting paid than in making sales.

To be like the esquire of Guadalaxara, who knew nothing in the morning of what he said at night.

To be like the tailor of Campillo, who worked for nothing, and found thread.

To beards with money cavaliers pay respect.

To change one's mind is rather a sign of prudence than ignorance.

To deny all, is to confess all.

To eat and to scratch one has but to begin.

To err is human, to forgive divine.

To every evil doer his evil day.

To find oneself in tight breeches. (Ill at ease--we say in tight boots.)

To flee and to run are not all one.

To forget a wrong is the best revenge.

To give is honour, to love is grief.

To him that watches, everything is revealed.

To him who gives you a capon you may spare a leg and a wing.

To love and be wise is impossible.

To mad words deaf ears.

To own is to fear. [Sp., Tener es temer.]

To swim and swim more, and be drowned on shore.

To take ambition from a soldier, is to rob him of his spurs.

To the bold man fortune gives her hand.

To the good listener, half a word is enough.

To the grateful man give more than he asks.

To whom you tell your secrets, to him you resign your liberty

To your son give a good name and a trade.

To-morrow will be another day.

To-morrow's remedy will not ward off the evil of to-day.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.

Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year.

Too much breaks the bag.

Tripe broth, you make much of yourself.

Trouts are not caught with dry breeches.

True love suffers no concealment.

Trust in God upon good security.

Trust not your gossip to a priest who has been a friar.

Trust not your money to one whose eyes are bent on the ground.

Truth and oil, always come to the surface.

Truth, like oil, always comes to the surface.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Two birds of prey do not keep each other company.

Two blacks don't make a white.

Two boys are half a boy, and three boys are no boy at all.

Two can play at that game.

Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.

Two false men to one traitor.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Two of a trade can never agree.

Two of a trade never agree.

Two sparrows on one ear of corn never agree.

Under a bad cloak there is a good tippler.

Under a gold sheath a leaden knife.

Under a good cloak may be a bad man.

Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.

Under my cloak I command the king.

Under my cloak I kill the king.

Under the sackcloth there is something hid.

Use power to curb power

Vainglory blossoms, and bears no fruit.

Visit your aunt, but not every day of the year.

Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow.

Walk until the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow.

War with all the world, and peace with England.

Water for oxen, wine for kings.

We are as the king, only not as rich.

We are both carriers, and shall meet on the road.

We are not roasting, and already we are basting.

We are not yet roasting, and already we make sops in the pan.

We do not know what is good until we have lost it.

We have no son, and yet are giving him a name.

We have not yet saddled, and are already mounted.

We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it

We make more enemies by what we say than friends by what we do.

Weight and measure save a man toil.

Welcome, misfortune, if you come alone.

Were you at the wedding, Molly? No, mother, but the bride was very fine.

What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.

What children hear their parents say by the fireside they repeat in the highway.

What Christ does not take the exchequer takes.

What cures Sancho makes Martha sick.

What does not happen in a year may happen in a moment.

What force cannot do ingenuity may.

What I see with my eyes I can guess with my fingers.

What is another's always pines for its master.

What is done, is done for this time.

What is in use, wants no excuse.

What is mine is my own; my brother Juan's is his and mine.

What is much desired is not believed when it comes.

What is new cannot be true.

What is whispered in your ear tell not to your husband.

What much is worth comes from the earth.

What must be, must be.

What my neighbour eats does my stomach no good.

What one does, one becomes.

What the abbot of Bamba cannot eat he gives away for the good of his soul.

What three know, everybody knows.

What you dislike for yourself do not like for me.

What's everybody's business is nobody's business.

Whatever way you take there is a league of bad road.

When a fool has made up his mind the market has gone by.

When a fox is in his hole, the smoke fetches him out.

When a good offer comes for your daughter, don't wait till her father returns from market.

When a goose dances, and a fool versifies, there is sport.

When a man is not used to breeches the seams gall him.

When a peasant gets rich, he knows neither relations nor friends.

When an old man cannot drink, prepare his grave.

When drink enters, wisdom departs.

When every one says you are an ass, bray.

When fire and water are at war, it is the fire that loses.

When flatterers meet the devil goes to dinner.

When fortune knocks upon the door open it widely.

When God gives light he gives it for all.

When God pleases, it rains in fair weather.

When he was born, Solomon passed by his door, and could not go in.

When I was born I wept, and every day brings a reason why.

When ill-luck sleeps, let no one wake her.

When it rains in August, it rains honey and wine.

When it rains in February, it will be temperate all the year.

When love is not madness, it is not love. [Sp., Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor.]

When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her.

When one door shuts, a hundred open.

When one door shuts, another opens.

When one wolf eats another, thee is nothing to eat in the wood.

When our daughter is married sons-in-law are plenty.

When our enemy flies, build him a golden bridge.

When passion entereth at the fore-gate wisdom goes out at the postern.

When poor, liberal; when rich, stingy.

When the bee sucks, it makes honey, when the spider, poison.

When the cat's away the rats will play.

When the child cuts its teeth, death is on the watch.

When the corsair promises masses and candles, it goes ill with the galley.

When the devil says his prayers he wants to cheat you.

When the Devil was sick the Devil a monk would be, When the Devil got well, the devil a monk was he.

When the fields yield not, the saints have not.

When the flatterer pipes, the devil dances.

When the fool has made up his mind the market is over.

When the iron is hot, then is the time to strike.

When the prior plays cards, what will the monks do?

When the rabbit has escaped, comes advice.

When the river makes no noise, it is either dried up or much swollen.

When the Spaniard sings, he is either mad or has no money.

When the spleen increases, the body diminishes.

When the steed is stolen, you shut the stable door.

When the summer is winter, and the winter is summer, it is a sorry year.

When there are two friends to one purse, one sings, the other weeps.

When they give you the calf, be ready with the halter.

When they offer you a ring, hold out your finger.

When thieves fall out the thefts come to light.

When thieves fall out, honest men come by their own.

When thou seest thy house in flames, go warm thyself by it.

When we ask a favour, we say, Madam; when we obtain it, what we please.

When we think to catch we are sometimes caught.

When you are an anvil, bear; when you are a hammer, strike.

When you are at Rome do as Rome does.

When you are on the road speak not ill of your enemy.

When you can't get bread, oat-cakes are not amiss.

When you can't get meat, chickens and bacon are good.

When you die, your trumpeter will be buried.

When you eat new bread, don't drink water.

When you go to a strange house knock at the door.

Where force prevails, right perishes.

Where friars abound keep your eyes open.

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.

Where God sends babbies he sends penny loaves.

Where luck is wanting, diligence is useless.

Where MacGregor sits at the head of the table.

Where man is not, nature is barren.

Where no one will, the devil himself will bear the cross.

Where one door is shut another opens.

Where one door shuts another opens.

Where shall the ox go and not plough?

Where the goat leaps, leaps that which sucks her.

Where the heart is past hope, the face is past shame.

Where the sea goes let the sands go.

Where there are no swamps there are no frogs

Where there is a sea there are pirates

Where there is love there is pain.

Where there is love, there is pain.

Where there is no want of will, there will be no want of opportunity.

Where there's fire there's smoke.

Where they eat your meat let them pick the bones.

Where you father has been with ink, go not you with a bag (i.e. what your father has sold and assigned, think not to recover with a bag of papers. In other words, don't go to law for it.

Where you lost your cloak, seek it.

Where you smart there I will hit you.

Where you think there is bacon, there are not even hooks for it.

Wherever you are, do as you see done.

Wherever you may be, do as you see done.

Wherries must not put out to sea.

Whether it be so or not, husband, put on your hood. (He had told her there was a new law that every man with horns should wear a hood.)

Whether the pitcher strike the stone, or the stone the pitcher, woe be to the pitcher.

Whether you boil snow or pound it you can have but water of it.

Whether you ignore a pig, or worship that pig from afar, to the pig it's all the same.

Whilst the nurse suckles, we love her; when she is of no further use, she is forgotten.

White hands are no offence.

Whither goest thou, sorrow? Whither I am used to go.

Whither shall the ox go, where he will not have to plough?

Who arrays himself in other men's garments is stripped on the highway.

Who gives what he has before he is dead, take a mallet and knock that fool on the head.

Who has no bread to spare should not keep a dog.

Who has time yet waits for time, comes to a time of repentance.

Who is always prying into other men's affairs, leads a dangerous life.

Who is to bell the cat?

Who is to carry the cat to the water?

Who is well seated, let him not budge.

Who is your enemy? A man of your own trade.

Who knows most speaks least.

Who lends recovers not; or if he recovers, recovers not all; or if not all, not much; of if much, a mortal enemy.

Who talks much, errs much.

Who ties well, unties well.

Who ventures nothing has no luck.

Who wings, drives away care.

Whoever falls sick of folly, is long in getting cured.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Whom God loves, his bitch litters pigs.

Whom the gods love die young.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.

Whoredom and thieving are never long concealed.

Win a game of your friend, and drink the money on the spot.

Wind and good luck are seldom lasting.

Wipe your eye with your elbow.

Wit without discretion is a sword in the hand of a fool.

Wit's never bought till it's paid for.

With a little wrong a man comes by his right.

With a staircase before you, you look for a rope to go down by.

With bread and wine you can walk your road.

With lightning and with love, the clothes sound, the heart burned.

With money you would not know yourself, without money nobody would know you.

Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.

Woe to the mule that sees not her master.

Women, wind, and fortune, soon change.

Words will not do for my aunt, for she does not put faith even in deeds.

Wounds from the knife are healed, but not those from the tongue.

Wounds heal, but not ill words.

Wounds pain most when grown cool.

Yesterday a cowherd, to-day a cavalier.

You can't have more bed-bugs than a blanket-full.

You can't make pancakes without breaking eggs.

You have broken my head and now you bring plaister.

You have debts, and make debts still; if you've not lied, lie you will.

You notice what I drink, and not the thirst I feel.

You surrender your freedom where you deposit your secret.

You used to be a baker, though now you wear gloves.

You want better bread than wheaten.

You will not be loved if you care for none but yourself.

Your cracked jug seems better to me than my sound one.