More Spanish Proverbs

Please your eye and plague your heart.... >>

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

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

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

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

Other Proverbs

A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune... (French) >>

I have other fish to fry... (Latin) >>

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.... (Russian) >>

Be Prepare... (Latin) >>

The country rooster dows not crow in the town... (Scottish) >>

Under my cloak I kill the king.

- Spanish Proverb