More Spanish Proverbs

Who wings, drives away care.... >>

Let it be a husband, though it be but a log.... >>

It is better to be born a beggar than a fool.... >>

It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another's.... >>

It goes ill in the house where the hen sings and the cock is silent.... >>

Other Proverbs

When one has not what one likes, one must like what one has.... (French) >>

Who offends writes on sand; who is offended, on marble.... (Italian) >>

Silence was never written down.... (Italian) >>

A thing too much seen is little prized.... (French) >>

The beginning is the half of every action... (Italian) >>

Friday pretexts for not fasting (meaning pleas of indisposition for not eating fish.)

- Spanish Proverb