More Spanish Proverbs

For want of a nail the shoe is lost.... >>

When the fields yield not, the saints have not.... >>

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

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

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

Other Proverbs

He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.... (Russian) >>

A hungry dog is not afraid of a cudgelling.... (French) >>

A good hater,a good lover.... (French) >>

He is a horse with four white feet (i.e., he is unlucky).... (French) >>

The monk that begs for God's sake begs for two.... (French) >>

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

- Spanish Proverb