| The road to a friend's house is never long. |
| What is play to the cat is death to the mouse. |
| He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning. |
| No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor. |
| Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child. |
| Children are a poor man's wealth. |
| Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them. |
| He who would leap high must take a long run. |
| The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage. |
| Bad is never good until worse happens. |
| Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. |
| Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year. |
| A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. |
| Life without a friend is death without a witness. |
| If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it. |
| How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. |
| Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion. |
| Where there is love, there is pain. |
| An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. |
| If I die, I forgive you If I live, we shall see. |
| Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker. |
| If you would live healthy, be old early. |
| Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. |
| If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle. |
| Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel. |
| Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence. |
| If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself. |
| Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. (When love is not madness, it is not love.) |
| If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else. |
| Drink nothing without seeing it Sign nothing without reading it. |
| Live with wolves, and you learn to howl. |
| Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. |
| One drink is just right two is too many three are too few. |
| Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. |
| Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow. |
| From a fallen tree, all make kindling. |
| An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests. |
| No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken. |
| Don't offer me advice give me money. |
| Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still. |
| To own is to fear. |
| The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water. |
| Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free. |
| Three Spaniards, four opinions. |
| Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year. |
| To the good listener, half a word is enough. |
| Ask advice only of your equals. |
