More Spanish Proverbs

One cannot blow and swallow at the same time.... >>

Leave the jest at its best.... >>

Ill luck enters by fathoms and departs by inches.... >>

It is in putting it into the oven that the loaf is made crooked.... >>

In a smith's house the knife is wooden.... >>

Other Proverbs

According to the arm be the bleeding.... (French) >>

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

The robes of lawyers are lined with obstinacy of suitors.... (Italian) >>

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.... (Italian) >>

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.... (American) >>

He that doth not rob makes not a robe or garment.

- Spanish Proverb