More Spanish Proverbs

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

His bread fell into the honey.... >>

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.... >>

Ask not after a good man's pedigree.... >>

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

Other Proverbs

At a bridge, a plank, a river, the servant foremost, the mas... (French) >>

Thrive by honesty or remain poor.... (French) >>

Despair gives courage to a coward.... (English) >>

A fair booty makes a fair thief.... (English) >>

A man is as old as he feels himself to be.... (English) >>

Better go about than be drowned.

- Spanish Proverb