More Spanish Proverbs

To him who gives you a capon you may spare a leg and a wing.... >>

For all one's early rising, it dawns none the sooner.... >>

Between two sharpers, the sharpest.... >>

Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free... >>

A scabby colt may make a good horse.... >>

Other Proverbs

Age and wedlock bring a man to his nightcap.... (English) >>

A bellyfull of gluttony will never study willingly.... (French) >>

A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicin... (American) >>

None ever took a stone out of the temple but the dust did fl... (English) >>

Fine and fine make but a slender doublet.... (French) >>

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

- Spanish Proverb