More Spanish Proverbs

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

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

I dance to the tune that is played.... >>

A great lance-thrust to a dead Moor.... >>

He who has but one coat cannot lend it.... >>

Other Proverbs

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.... (French) >>

A drowning man clings to a blade of grass.... (French) >>

A sin concealed is half pardoned (meaning when care is taken... (French) >>

A great estate is not gotten in a few hours.... (French) >>

A woman, a steak, and a walnut tree, the more they are beate... (Italian) >>

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

- Spanish Proverb