More Spanish Proverbs

When you can't get meat, chickens and bacon are good.... >>

For evil tongues, scissors.... >>

A great lance-thrust to a dead Moor.... >>

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

A fast day is the eve of a feast day.... >>

Other Proverbs

One must be either anvil or hammer.... (French) >>

Better walk before a hen than behind an ox.... (French) >>

Every one should sweep before his own door.... (French) >>

In the year when plums flourish, all else fails.... (English) >>

Adversity flatters no man.... (English) >>

He who does not show himself, is overlooked.

- Spanish Proverb