More Spanish Proverbs

The bowels support the heart, and not the heart the bowels.... >>

The fox that tarries long is on the watch for prey.... >>

The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor.... >>

When love is not madness, it is not love. [Sp., Cuando amor no es locu... >>

Tell her she is handsome, and you will turn her head.... >>

Other Proverbs

A cake and a bad custom ought to be broken.... (French) >>

The devil often lurks behind the cross.... (French) >>

The worst clothed go to windward.... (French) >>

He will not lose his oats for want of braying.... (French) >>

He that would go to sea for pleasure would go to hell for a ... (French) >>

Better go about than fall into the ditch.

- Spanish Proverb