More Spanish Proverbs

The drowning man is not troubled by rain.... >>

There would be no ill word if it were not ill taken.... >>

What is mine is my own; my brother Juan's is his and mine.... >>

The well-fed sheep makes a cloak of its tail.... >>

The shirt is nearer than the frock.... >>

Other Proverbs

Happy the child whose father goes to the devil.... (French) >>

Long absent, soon forgotten... (Zulu) >>

He may swim boldly who is held up by the chin.... (French) >>

Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.... (French) >>

He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.... (English) >>

It is not the fine, but the coarse and ill-spun that breaks.

- Spanish Proverb