More Spanish Proverbs

We have not yet saddled, and are already mounted.... >>

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

A rose too often smelled loses its fragrance.... >>

A covetous abbot for one offering loses a hundred.... >>

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

Other Proverbs

God save me from those I trust in.... (French) >>

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.... (American) >>

Don't run too far, you will have to return the same distance... (Jewish) >>

A dead mouse feels no cold.... (French) >>

A civil denial is better than a rude grant.... (French) >>

A fast day is the eve of a feast day.

- Spanish Proverb