More Spanish Proverbs

A handful of motherwit is worth a bushel of learning.... >>

A good word extinguishes more than a pailful of water.... >>

A good thing lost is a good thing valued.... >>

A man may lose his goods for want of demanding them.... >>

A handsome man is not quite poor.... >>

Other Proverbs

The north wind has no corn and a poor man no friend.... (English) >>

The hunchback does not see his own hump, but he sees his bro... (French) >>

To know and to act are one and the same... (Greek) >>

Every mile in winter is two.... (English) >>

Don't make an oven of your cap or a garden of your belly.... (French) >>

It is not necessary to fall into a well to know its depth.

- Spanish Proverb