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Spanish Proverb
Communism is a cow of many; well milked and badly fed. (communism and social)
Drink nothing with out seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. (commitment)
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. (change)
A pig bought on credit is forever grunting. (credit)
There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness. (happiness)
A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. (equality)
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. (friends and friendsh)
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning. (fools and foolishnes)
If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see. (forgiveness)
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. (health)
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. (flattery)
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. (gossip)
Every man for himself and God for us all. (god)
Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money. (management)
He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow. (law and lawyers)
Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee. (love)
Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men. (knowledge)
The day you marry, it is either kill or cure. (marriage)
What is not yours always chirps for its master. (ownership)
A poor man is all schemes. (poverty and the poor)
A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling. (words)
Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it. (price)
It is the truth that irritates a person. (truth)
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. (mothers)
Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow. (procrastination)
Manana is often the busiest day of the week. (procrastination)
People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the (opinions)
The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could. (power)
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. (tomorrow)
Life without a friend is death without a witness. (solitude)
Who has a trade may go anywhere. (skill)
Time and I against any two. (time and time manage)
Two great talkers will not travel far together. (speakers and speakin)
Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker. (alcohol and alcoholi)
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. (agreement)
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well. (advice)
Chins without beards deserve no honor. (appearance)
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. (contentment)
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it. (argument)
The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones. (wisdom)
Water for oxen, wine for kings. (wine)
A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel. (wealth)
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